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 language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1-94 |
Number of pages | 94 |
Journal | Physics Reports |
Volume | 330 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jun 2000 |