NUCLEAR SUPPRESSION OF HADROPRODUCTION

We demonstrate that the main part of the observed nuclear suppression of dilepton and charmonium production, especially the x-dependence of the suppression, can be explained by the absorption of fast initial partons. We assume the absorption to be x1-dependent and determine the empirical form of this dependence. Several reactions at different energies are described with the same parametrization of the absorption cross section. The factorization theorem constraints and some alternative models are discussed. The obtained description of data allows to make conclusions about the origin of nuclear effects in hadro- and electroproduction. In particular, it is concluded that the parton recombination and the excess pion contribution are unimportant in nuclei and an indication of excess gluons at $x_{2}\sim 0.1$ is observed.Comment: 19 pages, latex, 12 uuencoded figure

Rescaling of Nuclear Structure Functions

It is shown that nucleonic structure functions are $x-$ and $Q^{2}-$rescaled in nuclei. The $x-$rescaling accounts for nuclear effects in the case of exact scaling, while the $Q^{2}-$rescaling is responsible for a corresponding modification of quantum corrections. This result is obtained in the leading order for all flavour combinations and connects the two known models for the EMC-effect. Electroproduction and gluonic nuclear structure functions are calculated.Comment: 9 pages, Latex, 2 figures appended (compressed and uuencoded

Quasielastic Versus Inelastic and Deep Inelastic Lepton Scattering in Nuclei at x > 1

We have made a thorough investigation of the nuclear structure function W_2A in the region of 0.8 < x < 1.5 and Q^2 < 20 GeV^2, separating the quasielastic and inelastic plus deep inelastic contributions. The agreement with present experimental data is good giving support to the results for both channels. Predictions are made in yet unexplored regions of x and Q^2 to assert the weight of the quasielastic or inelastic channels. We find that at Q^2 < 4 GeV^2 the structure function is dominated by the quasielastic contributions for x < 1.5, while for values of Q^2 > 15 GeV^2 and the range of x studied the inelastic channels are over one order of magnitude bigger than the quasielastic one. The potential of the structure function at x > 1 as a source of information on nuclear correlations is stressed once more.Comment: 17 pages, LaTeX, 13 PostScript figures, final version to be published in Nuclear Physics

Deep Inelastic Lepton Scattering in Nuclei at x > 1 and the Nucleon Spectral Function

The nuclear structure function F_2A(x) has been studied in the Bjorken limit for (l, l') scattering on nuclei in the region of x > 1 and was found to be very sensitive to the information contained in the nucleon spectral function in nuclei, particularly the correlations between momenta and energies in the region of large momenta. Calculations were done in a local density approximation using two different spectral functions for nuclear matter. Results are compared to those obtained for a spectral function which has been evaluated directly for the finite nucleus, ^{16}O, under consideration. For values of x around 1.5 and larger the quasiparticle contribution is negligible, thus stressing the sensitivity of the present reaction to the dynamical properties of nuclei beyond the shell model approach. Several approximations which are usually employed in studies of the EMC effect have been analyzed and their inaccuracy in this region is demonstrated. The results stress the fact that the nuclear structure function contains important information on nuclear dynamical correlations. Therefore further measurements of F_2A(x) in that region and for many nuclei would be most welcome.Comment: 24 pages, LaTeX, 11 PostScript figures, final version to appear in Nuclear Physics

Gaseous Radiochemical Method for Registration of Ionizing Radiation and Its Possible Applications in Science and Industry

This work presents a new possibility of registration of ionizing radiation by the flowing gaseous radiochemical method (FGRM). The specified method uses the property of some solid crystalline lattice materials for a free emission of radioactive isotopes of inert gas atoms formed as a result of nuclear reactions. Generated in an ampoule of the detector, the radioactive inert gases are transported by a gas-carrier into the proportional gas counter of the flowing type, where the decay rate of the radioactive gas species is measured. This quantity is unequivocally related to the flux of particles (neutrons, protons, light and heavy ions) at the location of the ampoule. The method was used to monitor the neutron flux of the pulsed neutron target "RADEX" driven by the linear proton accelerator of INR RAS. Further progress of the FGRM may give rise to possible applications in nuclear physics, astrophysics and medicine, in the nondestructive control of fissionable materials, diagnostics of thermonuclear plasma, monitoring of fluxes and measurement of spectra of bombarding particles.Comment: 19 pages, 5 figure

Evolution of the nucleon structure in the lightest nuclei

The evolution of the nucleon structure as a function of atomic mass A is considered for the first time for the lightest nuclei, D, 3H, 3He and 4He, with an approach based on the Bethe-Salpeter formalism. We show that the pattern of the oscillation of the structure functions ratio r^A(x) = F_2^A/F_2^N(D) varies with A by changing the position of the cross-over point x_3 in which r^A(x) = 1, unlike the pattern for nuclei with masses A larger than 4, where only the amplitude of the oscillation changes. In particular we find that the pattern of F_2(x) modifications is controlled with the values (1 - x_3) = 0.32 (D/N), 0.16 (3He/D) and 0.08 (4He/D). The obtained results follow from the relativistic consideration of the nuclear structure and allow us to define a whole class of modifications of the partonic distributions in the nucleon bound in a nucleus. The EMC effect is explained as a particular case of the considered class.Comment: Preprint of the publication submitted to Physics Letters B. 12 pages (LaTeX) including 3 encapsulated figure

Mesonic and Binding Contributions to the EMC Effect in a Relativistic Many Body Approach

We revise the conventional nuclear effects of Fermi motion, binding and pionic effects in deep inelastic lepton scattering using a relativistic formalism for an interacting Fermi sea and the local density approximation to translate results from nuclear matter to finite nuclei. In addition we also consider effects from rho-meson renormalization in the nucleus. The use of nucleon Green's functions in terms of their spectral functions offers a precise way to account for Fermi motion and binding. On the other hand the use of many body Feynman diagrams in a relativistic framework allows one to avoid using prescriptions given in the past to introduce relativistic corrections in a non relativistic formalism. We show that with realistic nucleon spectral functions and meson nucleus selfenergies one can get a reasonable description of the EMC effect for x > 0.15, outside the shadowing region.Comment: 31 pages, LaTeX, 11 PostScript figures, final version to appear in Nuclear Physics

CHIRAL SYMMETRY CONSTRAINTS ON THE K+K^+ INTERACTION WITH THE NUCLEAR PION CLOUD

The real part of the $K^{+}$ selfenergy for the interaction of the $K^{+}$ with the pion nuclear cloud is evaluated in lowest order of chiral perturbation theory and is found to be exactly zero in symmetric nuclear matter. This removes uncertainties in that quantity found in former phenomenological analyses and is supported by present experimental data on $K^{+}$ nucleus scattering.Comment: 11 pp, LaTeX file, 4 figures (appended as compressed tar files, uses epsf.sty