Nuclear structure functions and off-shell corrections
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چکیده
The n-th moments of the nuclear structure function FA 2 (x,Q 2) are analyzed using the off-shell kinematics appropriate to describe deep inelastic electron-nucleus scattering within the impulse approximation. It is shown that off-shell effects are sensitive to the form of both the nuclear spectral function and the nucleon structure function FN 2 (x,Q 2), and can be as large as ∼ 10% at Q2 ∼ 2 (GeV/c)2. PACS numbers: 13.60Le, 25.30Fj, 25.30Rw Typeset using REVTEX
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