Aug 20 – 26, 2023
Natural Science Lecture Center (building-28), Seoul National University, Korea
Asia/Seoul timezone

Revisiting target mass corrections in lepton-nucleus deeply inelastic scattering

Aug 22, 2023, 3:15 PM
15m
Natural Science Lecture Center (building-28), Seoul National University, Korea

Natural Science Lecture Center (building-28), Seoul National University, Korea

Natural Science Lecture Center Seoul National University Building-28, 1 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul 08826, Korea
Oral WG2: Neutrino Scattering Physics parallel (room#102)

Speaker

Richard Ruiz (Institute of Nuclear Physics (IFJ) PAN)

Description

In this talk we revisit so-called target mass corrections (TMCs) to nuclear structure functions in lepton-nucleus deeply inelastic scattering (DIS), which account for the fact that the masses of nuclei are not guaranteed to be small compared to momentum transfers in DIS. We present several findings, including: (i) that nuclear parton distribution functions can be expressed directly in terms of partonic degrees of freedom in the OPE (the intermediate picture of "bound nucleons" is not necessary); (ii) that nuclear TMCs can be expressed in a way that is universal for all nuclei and readily implemented in numerical codes; (iii) the numerical impact in DIS cross sections.

Author

Richard Ruiz (Institute of Nuclear Physics (IFJ) PAN)

Presentation materials