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The European Physical Journal C

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Abstract Volume 4 Issue 2 (1998) pp 301-306
DOI 10.1007/s100529800756

theoretical physics:
Double $Q^2$-rescaling model and the nuclear effect of the parton distribution functions

Zhenmin He (1)(2), Xiaoxia Yao (1)(2), Chungui Duan (1)(2), Guanglie Li (1)(3), Hongan Peng (1)(4)

(1) CCAST (World Laboratory) P.O.Box 8730, Beijing, 100080, P.R. China
(2) Physics Department, Hebei Teachers' University, Shijiazhuang, 050016, P.R. China
(3) Institute of High Energy Physics, Academia Sinica, Beijing, 100039, P.R. China
(4) Physics Department, Peking University, Beijing,100871, P.R. China

Received: 18 August 1997 / Published online: 20 February 1998

Abstract. In order to overcome the shortcoming of nonconservation of nuclear momentum existing in the original $Q^2$-rescaling model (O$Q^2$RM) and avoid introducing nuclear shadowing factor, we proposed a double $Q^2$-rescaling model (D$Q^2$RM) for the parton distributions of the bound nucleon. Using the experimental data of lepton-nucleus deep inelastic scattering (DIS) and the condition of the nuclear momentum conservation, the $Q^2$-rescaling parameters of various partons for Sn, Fe, Ca and C nuclei are determined. The rescaling parameters of valence quark distributions are larger than unity and gradually increase with atomic number A, on the contrary, the rescaling parameters of sea quark distributions and gluon distributions are smaller than unity, and slowly decrease with A. By using this model, the experimental data of the DIS process, the nuclear Drell-Yan process and $J/\psi$ ph otoproduction process are consistently and quite satisfactorily explained.

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