Superscaling in inclusive electron-nucleus scattering

Abstract

We investigate the degree to which the scaling functions $F({\psi }^{\prime })$ derived from cross sections for inclusive electron-nucleus quasi-elastic scattering define the same function for different nuclei. In the region where the scaling variable ${\psi }^{\prime }<0$, we find that this superscaling is experimentally realized to a high degree.

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