Confirmation of quark-hadron duality in the neutron F2 structure function.
We apply a recently developed technique to extract for the first time the neutron F(2)(n) structure function from inclusive proton and deuteron data in the nucleon resonance region, and test the validity of quark-hadron duality in the neutron. We establish the accuracy of duality in the low-lying neutron resonance regions over a range of Q(2), and compare with the corresponding results on the proton and with theoretical expectations. The confirmation of duality in both the neutron and proton opens the possibility of using resonance region data to constrain parton distributions at large x.
Malace
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University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA.
Kahn
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Melnitchouk
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Keppel
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