Nuclear deep-inelastic lepton scattering and coherence phenomena

Gunther Piller, Wolfram Weise

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Abstract

This review outlines our present experimental knowledge and theoretical understanding of deep-inelastic scattering on nuclear targets. The emphasis is primarily on nuclear coherence phenomena, such as shadowing, where the key physics issue is the exploration of hadronic and quark-gluon fluctuations of a high-energy virtual photon and their passage through the nuclear medium. New developments in polarized deep-inelastic scattering on nuclei are also discussed, and more conventional binding and Fermi motion effects are summarized. The report closes with a brief outlook on vector meson electroproduction, nuclear shadowing at very large Q2 and the physics of high parton densities in QCD.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1-94
Number of pages94
JournalPhysics Reports
Volume330
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 2000

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