Analysis of Nuclear Effects in Structure Functions and Their Connection with the Binding Energy of Nuclei

• Published in: Brazilian journal of physics Vol. 53; no. 6
• Main Authors: García Canal, C. A., Tarutina, T., Vento, V.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01-12-2023; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Dynamics; Empirical analysis; Gluons; Nuclei; Nucleons; Particles and Fields; Physics; Physics and Astronomy; Quarks; Structure functions; EMC effect; Nuclear dynamics; Deep inelastic scattering
• ISSN: 0103-9733; 1678-4448
• DOI: 10.1007/s13538-023-01372-z

We describe nuclear effects in structure functions of nuclei in DIS by means of a multiplicative factor
β
A
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which differentiates the structure function of the bound nucleons from that of the free nucleons. Our analysis determines that
β
A
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x
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establishes a relation between the quark-gluon dynamics expressed by the bound nucleon structure functions and the nuclear dynamics as described by the well-known semi-empirical Bethe-Weizsäcker mass formula. This relation corroborates a connection between the underlying quark-gluon dynamics and the phenomenological nuclear dynamics.