1. Investigation of Medium Modifications to $^{12}$C Structure Functions in the Resonance Region
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Alsalmi, S., Albayrak, I., Ahmidouch, A., Arrington, J., Asaturyan, A., Bodek, A., Bosted, P., Bradford, R., Brash, E., Bruell, A., Butuceanu, C, Christy, M. E., Coleman, S. J., Commisso, M., Connell, S. H., Dalton, M. M., Danagoulian, S., Daniel, A., Day, D. B., Dhamija, S., Dunne, J., Dutta, D., Ent, R., Gaskell, D., Gasparian, A., Gran, R., Horn, T., Huang, Liting, Huber, G. M., Jayalath, C., Johnson, M., Jones, M. K., Kalantarians, N., Liyanage, A., Keppel, C. E., Kinney, E., Li, Y., Malace, S., Mamyan, V., Manly, S., Markowitz, P., Maxwell, J., Mbianda, N. N., McFarland, K. S., Meziane, M., Meziani, Z. E., Mills, G. B, Mkrtchyan, H., Mkrtchyan, A., Mulholland, J., Nelson, J. K., Niculescu, G., Niculescu, I., Pentchev, L., Puckett, A., Punjabi, V., Qattan, I. A., Reimer, P. E., Reinhold, J., Rodriguez, V. M, Rondon-Aramayo, O., Sakuda, M., Sakumoto, W. K., Segbefia, E., Seva, T., Sick, I., Slifer, K., Smith, G. R., Steinman, J., Solvignon, P., Tadevosyan, V., Tajima, S., Tvaskis, V., Vulcan, W. F., Walton, T., Wesselmann, F. R, Wood, S. A., and Ye, Zhihong
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Nuclear Experiment - Abstract
We present results from a high precision experimental study of the nuclear modification of the longitudinal ($F_L$) to transverse ($F_1$) structure function ratio for bound nucleons in the resonance region. The inclusive electron scattering cross sections were measured in Jefferson Lab Experimental Hall C on carbon and deuterium nuclei for a large range of kinematics, allowing for separations of the longitudinal and transverse structure functions to be performed at a range of four-momentum transfer values $0.5 \le Q^2 \le$ 3.75 GeV$^2$. In contrast to the significant body of measurements of the nuclear modification of the $F_2$ structure function in the deep inelastic scattering region, there is very little on $F_L$ and $R = F_L / 2xF_1$ in the region of the nucleon resonances. In this paper we present measurements of the nuclear effect on $R$ for $^{12}$C ($R_C$) relative to deuterium ($R_D$). These results indicate regions in which in $R_C>R_D$, requiring that the nuclear modifications be different in all three structure functions, $F_2$, $F_1$ and $F_L$., Comment: to be published in PRL
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- 2025