Mesonic and Binding Contributions to the EMC Effect in a Relativistic Many-body Approach

Abstract

Starting from a covariant relativistic formalism which uses nucleon and pion propagators in a nuclear medium, we revise the traditional effects of Fermi motion, binding and mesonic corrections to the EMC effect. The calculations are done in a very accurate way, using precise nucleon spectral functions and meson self-energies and a good reproduction of the EMC data is obtained outside the shadowing region which is not explored.

8 pages, 4 PostScript figures, LaTeX, uses epsf.sty, to be published in the Proceedings of the XIII International Seminar on High Energy Physics Problems, Dubna, September 2-7, 1996