University of New Hampshire University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository Honors Theses and Capstones Student Scholarship Spring 2014 Re-analysis of the World Data on the EMC Effect and Extrapolation to Nuclear Matter Stacy E. Karthas University of New Hampshire - Main Campus Follow this and additional works at: https://scholars.unh.edu/honors Part of the Nuclear Commons Recommended Citation Karthas, Stacy E., "Re-analysis of the World Data on the EMC Effect and Extrapolation to Nuclear Matter" (2014). Honors Theses and Capstones. 184. https://scholars.unh.edu/honors/184 This Senior Honors Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Scholarship at University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Honors Theses and Capstones by an authorized administrator of University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Re-analysis of the World Data on the EMC Effect and Extrapolation to Nuclear Matter Stacy E. Karthas May 15, 2014 Abstract The EMC effect has been investigated by physicists over the past 30 years since it was discovered at CERN. This effect shows that the internal nucleon structure varies when in the nuclear medium. Data from SLAC E139 and JLab E03 103 were studied with the Coulomb correction and directly compared. The Coulomb distortion had a greater impact on the JLab data due to slightly lower energies and different kinematics. The EMC ratio was found to have a dependence on a kinematic variable, , which was removed when Coulomb corrections were applied. The methodology was developed to apply Coulomb corrections, which had been neglected in the past, and to extrapolate to nuclear matter to compare to theory.