Centre for Nonlinear Studies and Department of Physics, University of the Witwatersrand, P.O. Wits 2050, South Africa
Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1A7, Canada
Abstract:
Using the impulse approximation, a relativistic formalism for the deuteron structure function is given in the conventional nuclear model. The nucleon density distribution function is obtained by combining the Blankenbecler-Cook vertex factor with the Buck-Gross deuteron wave function. A new procedure is developed to extract the neutron structure function from empirical data on proton and deuteron targets. The results are used to evaluate the deuteron EMC effects in the conventional nuclear model.