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arxiv: 0805.3116 · v2 · submitted 2008-05-20 · ⚛️ nucl-th · hep-ph· nucl-ex

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Neutron Structure Functions

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keywords structuredatadeuteronfunctionsneutronprotonextractedratio
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Neutron structure functions can be extracted from proton and deuteron data and a representation of the deuteron structure. This procedure does not require DIS approximations or quark structure assumptions. We find that the results depend critically on properly accounting for the Q^2 dependence of proton and deuteron data. We interpolate the data to fixed Q^2, and extract the ratio of neutron to proton structure functions. The extracted ratio decreases with increasing x, up to x \approx 0.9, while there are no data available to constrain the behavior at larger x.

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