Supereikonal Model of Deep-Inelastic Electron-Proton Scattering

Abstract

A field-theoretic model is written to describe the structure function $W_2$ of deep-inelastic $e-p$ scattering. Strict Bjorken scaling is found not to hold; nevertheless, the model provides a modest fit to the experimental data. A variant of the Drell-Yan-West relation between the elastic limit of $W_2$ and the asymptotic falloff of the electromagnetic form factors is obtained.