TY - JOUR
T1 - Short range correlations and the EMC effect
AU - Weinstein, L. B.
AU - Piasetzky, E.
AU - Higinbotham, D. W.
AU - Gomez, J.
AU - Hen, O.
AU - Shneor, R.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. National Science Foundation, the Israel Science Foundation, and the US-Israel Bi-National Science Foundation. Jefferson Science Associates operates the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility under DOE contract DE-AC05-06OR23177.
PY - 2011/2/4
Y1 - 2011/2/4
N2 - This Letter shows quantitatively that the magnitude of the EMC effect measured in electron deep inelastic scattering at intermediate xB, 0.35≤xB≤0.7, is linearly related to the short range correlation (SRC) scale factor obtained from electron inclusive scattering at x B≥1. The observed phenomenological relationship is used to extract the ratio of the deuteron to the free pn pair cross sections and F2n/F2p, the ratio of the free neutron to free proton structure functions. We speculate that the observed correlation is because both the EMC effect and SRC are dominated by the high virtuality (high momentum) nucleons in the nucleus.
AB - This Letter shows quantitatively that the magnitude of the EMC effect measured in electron deep inelastic scattering at intermediate xB, 0.35≤xB≤0.7, is linearly related to the short range correlation (SRC) scale factor obtained from electron inclusive scattering at x B≥1. The observed phenomenological relationship is used to extract the ratio of the deuteron to the free pn pair cross sections and F2n/F2p, the ratio of the free neutron to free proton structure functions. We speculate that the observed correlation is because both the EMC effect and SRC are dominated by the high virtuality (high momentum) nucleons in the nucleus.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.052301
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.052301
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AN - SCOPUS:79551696596
SN - 0031-9007
VL - 106
JO - Physical Review Letters
JF - Physical Review Letters
IS - 5
M1 - 052301
ER -