Comparative study of nuclear effects in polarized electron scattering from 3He

We present a detailed analysis of nuclear effects in inclusive electron scattering from polarized He-3 nuclei for polarization asymmetries, structure functions, and their moments, in both the nucleon-resonance and deep-inelastic regions. We compare the results of calculations within the weak binding approximation at finite Q(2) with the effective polarization ansatz often used in experimental data analyses and explore the impact of Delta components in the nuclear wave function and nucleon off-shell corrections on extractions of the free neutron structure. Using the same framework we also make predictions for the Q(2) dependence of quasielastic scattering from polarized He-3, data which can be used to constrain the spin-dependent nuclear smearing functions in He-3.