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Nuclear Effects on the Extraction of Neutron Structure Functions
Nuclear effects in light nuclei due to the presence of spin-one isosinglet
6-quark clusters are investigated. The quark distributions of 6-quark clusters
are obtained by using a perturbative QCD (pQCD) based framework, which allows
us to get a good description of the ratio of the deuteron structure function to
the free nucleon structure function. Nuclear effects on the extraction of the
neutron structure functions and are estimated. We find that the
effect on the extracted spin-dependent neutron structure function is very
different from that on the spin-independent neutron structure function. The
effect enhances the Bjorken sum by about 10%, whereas its correction to the
Gottfried sum is rather small. The formalism for calculating nuclear effects is
further used to evaluate the spin-dependent structure function of the He
nucleus and a good self-consistent check is obtained.Comment: 21 pages, 6 figure
Energy Loss in Nuclear Drell-Yan Process
By means of the nuclear parton distributions which can be used to provide a
good explanation for the EMC effect in the whole x range, we investigate the
energy loss effect in nuclear Drell-Yan process. When the cross section of
lepton pair production is considered varying with the center-of-mass energy of
the nucleon-nucleon collision, we find that the nuclear Drell-Yan(DY) ratio is
suppressed due to the energy loss, which balances the overestimate of the DY
ratio only in consideration of the effect of nuclear parton distributions.Comment: 10 pages, LaTeX, 1 ps figures, To appear in Eur. Phys. J.
Transverse momentum resummation in soft-collinear effective theory
We present a universal formalism for transverse momentum resummation in the
view of soft-collinear effective theory (SCET), and establish the relation
between our SCET formula and the well known Collins-Soper-Sterman's pQCD
formula at the next-to-leading logarithmic order (NLLO). We also briefly
discuss the reformulation of joint resummation in SCET.Comment: 23 pages, 7 figures; version to appear in Phys. Rev.
Understanding the proton spin "puzzle" with a new "minimal" quark model
We investigate the spin structure of the nucleon in an extended Jaffe-Lipkin
quark model. In addition to the conventional structure, different
admixtures in the nucleon wavefunction are also taken into
account. The contributions to the nucleon spin from various components of the
nucleon wavefunction are discussed. The effect due to the Melosh-Wigner
rotation is also studied. It is shown that the Jaffe-Lipkin term is only
important when antiquarks are negatively polarized. We arrive at a new
"minimal" quark model, which is close to the naive quark model, in order to
understand the proton spin "puzzle".Comment: 19 latex pages, Published in Eur.Phys.J.
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