Abstract

We describe an experiment measuring electron scattering on a neutron bound in deuterium with coincident detection of a fast, backward‐going spectator proton. Our data map out the relative importance of the pure PWIA spectator mechanism and final state interactions in various kinematic regions, and give a first glimpse of the modification of the structure function of a bound neutron as a function of its off‐shell mass. We also discuss a new experimental program to study the structure of a free neutron by extending the same technique to much lower spectator momenta.

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