E895 Collaboration Research Articles

Nuclear shadowing at small x and Q2

Shadowing corrections to the structure functions of heavy nuclei are calcuaated at very low values of Bjorken-x and at values of the momentum transfer relevant to recent experiments. Good agreement is obtained with data from the E665 Collaboration for Xe/D and Pb/D, and with the NMC data on Ca/D and C/D structure function ratios. Corrections to the deuteron structure function are also estimated down to x∼10−5, and found to be less than about 3% over the range of x covered by the E665 data.

A spectrometer for muon scattering at the Tevatron

In this paper the spectrometer constructed by the E665 Collaboration is described. The spectrometer was built during the period 1982–87 and the first data were taken during the 1987–88 Fixed Target run of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL) Tevatron. This is the first of a series of runs in which a comprehensive program of high energy muon scattering experiments will be performed.