Extraction of the Ratio of the Neutron to Proton Structure Functions from Deep Inelastic Scattering
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We study the nuclear (A) dependence of the European Muon Collaboration (EMC) effect at high values of x (x ≥ 0.6). Our approach makes use of conventional nuclear degrees of freedom within the Relativistic Impulse Approximation. By performing a non-relativistic series expansion we demonstrate that relativistic corrections make a substantial contribution to the effect at x ∼ 0.6 and show that the ratio of neutron to proton structure functions extracted from a global fit to all nuclei is not inconsistent with values obtained from the deuteron. Typeset using REVTEX
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