ON A RELATIVISTIC DESCRIPTION OF THE DEEP INELASTIC SCATTERING ON THE DEUTERON

Abstract

The deep inelastic scattering on deuteron is considered in a fully covariant field theoretical approach. All calculations are performed within the Bethe–Salpeter formalism and the operator product expansion method. We obtain the explicit form of the nucleon contribution and mesonic exchange corrections to the deuteron structure function [Formula: see text]. The sum rules for the baryon number and energy-momentum of the deuteron are derived using the normalization condition of the Bethe–Salpeter amplitude and the virial theorem of field theory.