Relativistic Deuteron Structure Function
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We calculate the unpolarised deep inelastic structure function of a relativistic deuteron within a covariant framework. An exact treatment of nucleon off-shell effects is shown to give corrections to the widely-used convolution model, even in impulse approximation. Neglecting off-shell effects in the extraction of the neutron structure function from deuterium data introduces errors of order $1-2\%$.
9 pages LaTeX, 4 uuencoded figures, to appear in Physics Letters B, TPR-94-03; PSI-PR-94-15; ADP-93-227/T143
9 pages LaTeX, 4 uuencoded figures, to appear in Physics Letters B, TPR-94-03; PSI-PR-94-15; ADP-93-227/T143