By Joel Allen Mousseau

This thesis information major advancements within the knowing of the nuclear EMC impression and nuclear shadowing in neutrino physics, and makes titanic comparisons with electron scattering physics. particularly, it comprises the 1st systematic research of the EMC ratios of carbon, iron and bring about plastic scintillator of neutrinos. The research offered offers the simplest proof up to now that the EMC influence is identical among electrons and neutrinos in the sensitivity of the information. Nuclear shadowing is measured systematically for the 1st time with neutrinos. by contrast with the information at the EMC influence, the information on nuclear shadowing help the realization that nuclear shadowing can be improved for neutrinos than it truly is for electrons. This end issues to fascinating new nuclear physics.

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Increasing xbj therefore pushes W ! MN . This patently violates one of the assumptions of DIS that enough energy and momentum have been transfered to the nucleon that the individual partons may be resolved. Large xbj values are possible in DIS events if the Q2 is very large. In practice any experiment has a limit on the maximum available Q2 because the beam energy and angular acceptance are both limited. References 1. J. Park [for the MINERvA Collaboration], Direct measurement of the NuMI flux with neutrinoelectron scattering in MINERvA.

1] Fig. 3 The three different detector views constructed in MINER A. The top of the figure corresponds to the top of the detector, and the beam direction is into the page. Figure is from Ref. [2] detector are routed to non-adjacent pixels on the face of the PMT. This reduces the cross talk between adjacent detector channels. Each PMT pixel corresponds to one scintillator strip, or one detector channel. 2 The MINER A Coordinate System Modules are placed along the z axis of MINER A, with increasing z along the beam direction toward the MINOS near detector, and decreasing z being in the opposite direction toward the veto wall.

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