Measurement of the Nucleon Structure Function in Iron Using 215- and 93-GeV Muons

A. R. Clark; K. J. Johnson; L. T. Kerth; S. C. Loken; T. W. Markiewicz; P. D. Meyers; W. H. Smith; M. Strovink; W. A. Wenzel; R. P. Johnson; C. Moore; M. Mugge; R. E. Shafer; G. D. Gollin; F. C. Shoemaker; P. Surko

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.51.1826

Measurement of the Nucleon Structure Function in Iron Using 215- and 93-GeV Muons

A. R. Clark, K. J. Johnson, L. T. Kerth, S. C. Loken, T. W. Markiewicz, P. D. Meyers, W. H. Smith, M. Strovink, W. A. Wenzel, R. P. Johnson, C. Moore, M. Mugge, R. E. Shafer, G. D. Gollin, F. C. Shoemaker, and P. Surko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 51, 1826 – Published 14 November 1983

Abstract

This Letter presents measurements of the nucleon structure function $F_{2} (x, Q^{2})$ based on the deep-inelastic scattering of 215- and 93-GeV muons in the iron multimuon spectrometer at Fermilab. With use of a lowest-order QCD calculation, a value of $Λ_{LO} = 230 \pm 40 (stat .) \pm 80 (syst .)$ MeV/c is found.