arXiv:nucl-th/9407007·v1·Nuclear Theory
Relativistic Deuteron Structure Function
W.Melnitchouk (U. Regensburg)🇩🇪 · A.W.Schreiber (PSI)🇨🇭 · A.W.Thomas (U. Adelaide)🇦🇺
Abstract
We calculate the unpolarised deep inelastic structure function of a relativistic deuteron within a covariant framework. An exact treatment of nucleon off-shell effects is shown to give corrections to the widely-used convolution model, even in impulse approximation. Neglecting off-shell effects in the extraction of the neutron structure function from deuterium data introduces errors of order .
Comments: 9 pages LaTeX, 4 uuencoded figures, to appear in Physics Letters B, TPR-94-03; PSI-PR-94-15; ADP-93-227/T143