Holographic Approaches to DIS on a Nucleus

TL;DR

This paper uses holographic models of dense nuclei as extremal RN-AdS black holes to qualitatively reproduce the structure function ratios observed in deep inelastic scattering experiments across different x ranges.

Contribution

It introduces a holographic approach modeling nuclei as black holes to analyze DIS structure functions, capturing shadowing, anti-shadowing, EMC, and Fermi motion effects.

Findings

R-ratio shows shadowing, anti-shadowing, EMC-like, and Fermi motion effects in dense nucleus model.

Dilute limit reproduces EMC-like and Fermi motion effects but no shadowing.

Qualitative agreement with experimental DIS data across all x ranges.

Abstract

We consider deep inelastic scattering (DIS) on a dense nucleus described as an extremal RN-AdS black hole with holographic quantum fermions in the bulk. We find that the R-ratio (the ratio of the structure function of the black hole to proton) exhibit shadowing for $x < 0.1$, anti-shadowing for $0.1 < x < 0.3$, EMC-like effect for $0.3 < x < 0.8$ and Fermi motion for $x > 0.8$ in a qualitative agreement with the experimental observation of the ratio for DIS on nucleus for all range of $x$. We also take the dilute limit of the black hole and show that its R-ratio exhibits EMC-like effect for $0.2 < x < 0.8$ and the Fermi motion for $x > 0.8$, and no shadowing is observed in the dilute limit for both bottom-up (using Thomas-Fermi approximation for the nucleon distribution inside the dilute nucleus), and top-down (considering the dilute nucleus to be a Fermi gas in AdS) approaches.