Partial deconfinement of quarks in nuclei and the EMC effect |
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Authors: | Sourendu Gupta K. V. L. Sarma |
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Affiliation: | 1. Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Homi Bhabha Road, 400 005, Bombay, India
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Abstract: | We investigate the possibility that in a heavy nucleus a few nucleons exist in a state of total deconfinement. The constituents of these deconfined nucleons are regarded as a mixture of quark-and gluon-gases in thermal equilibrium at a fixed temperatureT. This approach reproduces the observed softening of the valence quarks in heavy nuclei and predicts fewer gluons atx<1 and an exponential decrease of the structure functions atx>1. |
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