Measurement of the nucleon structure functions
- 1 December 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 20 (11), 2645-2691
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.20.2645
Abstract
Measurements have been made of the inclusive scattering of 96, 147, and 219 GeV muons from hydrogen, and of 147 GeV muons from deuterium. Results are presented for the nucleon structure function [] for GeV and . The value of rises with at small , and falls with at large , in agreement with the ideas of quantum chromodynamics. An average value of the ratio has been obtained for the region and . The values of from this experiment have been combined with those from other charged-lepton scattering experiments to determine moments of the structure functions. The variation with of these moments is used to derive values for , taking into account corrections up to second order in . The fit to the data is very good.
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