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NUCLEAR PHYSICS A
Volume 765, Issue 1-2, Pages 126-187Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2005.10.011
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We present the results of a phenomenological study of unpolarized nuclear structure functions for a wide kinematical region of x and Q(2). As a basis of our phenomenology we develop a model which takes into account a number of different nuclear effects including nuclear shadowing, Fermi motion and binding, nuclear pion excess and off-shell correction to bound nucleon structure functions. Within this approach we perform a statistical analysis of available data on the ratio of the nuclear structure functions F-2 for different nuclei in the range from the deuteron to the lead. We express the off-shell effect and the effective scattering amplitude describing nuclear shadowing in terms of few parameters which are common to all nuclei and have a clear physical interpretation. The parameters are then extracted from statistical analysis of data. As a result, we obtain an excellent overall agreement between our calculations and data in the entire kinematical region of x and Q(2). We discuss a number of applications of our model which include the calculation of the deuteron structure functions, nuclear valence and sea quark distributions and nuclear structure functions for neutrino charged-current scattering. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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