Analysis of nuclear effects in structure functions and their connection with the Binding Energy of Nuclei

Abstract

We describe nuclear effects in structure functions of nuclei in DIS by means of a multiplicative factor beta_A (x) which differentiates the structure function of the bound nucleons from that of the free nucleons. Our analysis determines that beta_A (x) establishes a relation between the quark-gluon dynamics expressed by the bound nucleon structure functions and the nuclear dynamics as described by the well-known semi-empirical Bethe-Weizsacker mass formula. This relation corroborates a connection between the underlying quark gluon dynamics and the phenomenological nuclear dynamics.