New method for extracting neutron structure functions from nuclear data

TL;DR

This paper introduces a novel method to extract neutron structure functions from nuclear data, applicable to both spin-averaged and spin-dependent cases, and demonstrates its high accuracy on deuteron data.

Contribution

The paper presents a new iterative method for extracting neutron structure functions from nuclear data, effective for various structure function types and validated on deuteron measurements.

Findings

Accurately reproduces known input functions with few iterations.

Applicable to both resonance and deep inelastic regions.

Effective for unpolarized and polarized structure functions.

Abstract

We propose a new method for extracting neutron structure functions from inclusive structure functions of nuclei. Unlike earlier approaches, the new method is applicable to both spin-averaged and spin-dependent structure functions. We test the reliability of the method on unpolarized F_2 and polarized g_1 structure functions of the deuteron in both the nucleon resonance and deep inelastic regions. The new method is able to reproduce known input functions of almost arbitrary shape to very good accuracy with only several iterations.