Higher Twist Effects in Deep Inelastic Scattering on Nuclei

Abstract

Particle production in deep inelastic scattering on nuclei is reduced due to absorption of the produced particles in the nucleus. The photon ejects a quark from a bound nucleon which propagates through the nucleus forming a prehadron before turning into a hadron. We calculate the higher twist effect in hadronization which dominates the $z\to 1$ region of fragmentation.

Comments: Based on a talk given by H.J. Pirner at the Fifth International Conference on Perspectives in Hadronic Physics, Trieste, May 2006