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Title A new study of the EMC Effect using the F2n neutron structure function
Abstract The persistently mysterious deviations from unity of the ratio of nuclear target structure functions to those of deuterium as measured in deep inelastic scattering (often termed the ``EMC Effect") have become the canonical observable for studies of nuclear medium modifications to free nucleon structure in the valence regime. The structure function of the free proton is well known from numerous experiments spanning decades. The free neutron structure function, however, has remained difficult to access. Recently it has been extracted in a systematic study of the global data within a parton distribution function extraction framework and is available from the CTEQ-Jefferson Lab (CJ) Collaboration. Here, we leverage the latter to introduce a new method to study the EMC Effect in nuclei by re-examining existing data in light of the the magnitude of the medium modifications to the free neutron and proton structure functions independently. From the extraction of the free neutron from worl
Author(s) Holly Szumila-Vance, Cynthia (Thia) Keppel, Sergio Escalante, Narbe Kalantarians
Publication Date January 2021
Document Type Journal Article, Other
Primary Institution Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News
Affiliation Exp Nuclear Physics / Experimental Halls / Hall C
Funding Source Nuclear Physics (NP)
Proprietary? No
This publication conveys Technical Science Results
Document Numbers
JLAB Number: JLAB-PHY-20-3150 OSTI Number: 1761063
LANL Number: arxiv:2002.02597 Other Number: DOE/OR/23177-4923
Associated with an experiment No
Associated with EIC No
Supported by Jefferson Lab LDRD Funding No
Journal Article
Journal Name Physical Review C
Refereed Yes
Volume 103
Issue
Page(s) 015201
Other
Description Analysis using older data with updated theory and data insights.
Attachments/Datasets/DOI Link
Document(s)
EMCnote.pdf (STI Document)
2002.02597.pdf (Accepted Manuscript)
DOI Link
Dataset(s) (none)
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