Short range correlations and the EMC effect

E. Piasetzky*, L. B. Weinstein, D. W. Higinbotham, J. Gomez, O. Hen, R. Shneor

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Abstract

The magnitude of the EMC effect measured in electron deep inelastic scattering (DIS) is linearly related to the Short Range Correlation (SRC) scaling factor obtained from electron inclusive scattering. We speculate that the observed correlation is due to the fact that both the EMC effect and SRC are dominated by high momentum nucleons in the nucleus. The observed phenomenological relationship can be used to extract the ratio of the deuteron to the free pn-pair cross sections, the DIS cross section for a free neutron, F2n/F2p, the ratio of the free neutron to free proton structure functions, and the u/d ratio in a free proton.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)245-248
Number of pages4
JournalNuclear Physics A
Volume855
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Apr 2011

Funding

FundersFunder number
US-Israel bi-national science foundation
National Science Foundation
U.S. Department of EnergyDE-AC05-06OR23177
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Israel Science Foundation

    Keywords

    • DIS
    • EMC effect
    • Short range correlation

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