The role of Fermi motion and quark exchange as a nuclear medium effect in the nuclear structure function of 3He, 3H nuclei and their EMC effects

Abstract

To extract the nuclear structure function of light nuclei like 3He and 3H, the convolution of proton and neutron structure functions in the conventional approach could not explain the modification of nuclear structure functions of these nuclei because of some nuclear medium effects. There are some models that have some success to explain the modification of nuclear structure functions in limited x range. So in this investigation the quark exchange model is considered to extract the nuclear medium effect of this phenomenon (quark exchange effect) for nuclear structure functions of 3He and 3H nuclei. The Fermi motion part of the nuclear structure functions for these nuclei is extracted by taking the GRV’s neutron and proton structure functions in the conventional approach. So the nuclear structure functions and the EMC ratios of 3He and 3H nuclei are calculated by considering both Fermi motion and the nuclear medium effect of quark exchange. Finally the extracted results are compared with available data.