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Quark-hadron duality and the nuclear EMC effect

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Recent data on polarized proton knockout reactions off 4He nuclei suggest a small but nonzero modification of proton electromagnetic form factors in medium. Using model-independent relations derived on the basis of quark-hadron duality, we relate the medium modification of the form factors to the modification at large x of the deep-inelastic structure function of a bound proton. This places strong constraints on models of the nuclear EMC effect which assume a large deformation of the intrinsic structure of the nucleon in medium.

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  1. Jefferson Lab, 12000 Jefferson Avenue, Newport News, VA 23606, USA, , , , , , US

    W. Melnitchouk

  2. Special Research Centre for the Subatomic Structure of Matter, and Department of Physics and Mathematical Physics, Adelaide University, 5005, Australia, , , , , , AU

    K. Tsushima & A.W. Thomas

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  1. W. Melnitchouk
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Received: 26 October 2001 / Accepted: 25 February 2002

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Melnitchouk, W., Tsushima, K. & Thomas, A. Quark-hadron duality and the nuclear EMC effect. Eur Phys J A 14, 105–112 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/iepja1323

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