Low Energy Pion-Nucleus Interactions: Nuclear Deep Inelastic Scattering, Drell-Yan and Missing Pions

Abstract

The experimental discovery that the nucleus is approximately transparent to low energy pions is reviewed. The consequences of this for nuclear deep inelastic scattering and Drell-Yan interactions are discussed. I argue that low energy nucleus data imply that there is little nuclear enhancement of the pion cloud of a nucleon, and try to interpret this in terms of nucleon-nucleon correlations.

Comments: 14 pages, revtex, Text of invited talk presented at the LAMPF Users Group, Inc. Symposium, Oct. 25-26, 1996