Ratio of the nucleon structure function F2 for heavy nuclei and free nucleons

Abstract

An intuitive nuclear wave function is used to show that the so-called European Muon Collaboration Effect can be accounted for by nucleons having a somewhat larger effective size when bound in nuclear matter than when free. In spite of its crudeness, the same model also gives a not unreasonable nucleon structure function F 2( x) for intermediate x-values.