Deep inelastic scattering on asymmetric nuclei
Date
2000
Authors
Saito, K.
Boros, C.
Tsushima, K.
Bissey, F.
Afnan, I.
Thomas, A.
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Physics Letters B: Nuclear Physics and Particle Physics, 2000; 493(3-4):288-292
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K. Saito, C. Boros, K. Tsushima, F. Bissey, I. R. Afnan, A. W. Thomas
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Abstract
We study deep inelastic scattering on isospin asymmetric nuclei. In particular, the difference of the nuclear structure functions and the Gottfried sum rule for the lightest mirror nuclei, <sup>3</sup>He and <sup>3</sup>H, are investigated. It is found that such systems can provide significant information on charge symmetry breaking and flavor asymmetry in the nuclear medium. Furthermore, we propose a new method to extract the neutron structure function from radioactive isotopes far from the line of stability. We also discuss the flavor asymmetry in the Drell-Yan process with isospin asymmetric nuclei. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V.