1. Linear relation between short range correlation and EMC effect of gluons in nuclei
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Wang, Wei, Xu, Ji, Yang, Xing-Hua, and Zhao, Shuai
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High Energy Physics - Phenomenology - Abstract
We explore the EMC effects of gluons through heavy quark production in deep inelastic scattering (DIS) and short range correlation (SRC) from sub-threshold photoproduction of the $J/\psi$. We perform an effective field theory analysis of gluon parton distribution functions in nuclei, and derive a linear relation between the slope of reduced cross section, which reflects the magnitude of gluon EMC effect, and the $J/\psi$ production cross section at the photon energy $E_\gamma = 7.0\,\textrm{GeV}$ in the nucleus rest frame which characterizes the SRC. This finding is confirmed by a numerical calculation using the available phenomenological results for gluon parton distribution functions. Examining this linear relation by the forthcoming experimental data on electron-ion collider allows to decipher nuclear effects of gluon distributions and gain a better understanding of the substructure in bound nuclei., Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures and 1 table
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- 2024