Lepton Scattering Cross Section and Nuclear Structure Function of ⁴He and ¹²C Nuclei

Mir Hamid Musavi, Negin Sattary Nikkhoo, Farhad Zolfagharpour

Department of Physics, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, Ardabil, Iran.
Islamic Azad University, Jolfa International Branch, Jolfa, Iran.

DOI: 10.4236/wjnst.2013.34022                

Abstract

This paper is an effort to extract the structure function, the EMC ratio, and the lepton scattering cross section in the convolution nuclear theory framework for ⁴He and ¹²C nuclei. We suppose that, in conventional approach, based on harmonic oscillator model, one could consider for a nucleus shell different hw parameters which are associated with the square root of the mean radius of the nucleus shells. We use GRV free nucleon structure function, which has good agreement with the proton and neutron structure function, extracted from experimental results. In addition, the lepton scattering cross sections of ⁴He and ¹²C nuclei are calculated in energy higher than 1 GeV. The extracted results show good agreement with experimental data.

Keywords

Structure Function; Differential Cross Section; The EMC Effect

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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