| Experiment E03-103, carried out in Hall C at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, measuring inclusive electron scattering cross sections from nuclear targets over a broad range of x (0.3 < x < 1) up to Q2 ≈ 8 GeV 2. The bulk of the data were taken at a beam energy of 5.8 GeV, with beam currents ranging from 30 to 80 muA. This dissertation describes the experiment in detail, and presents the extracted EMC ratios for the cryogenic targets 3He, 4He and solid targets Be, C, Cu, and Au. Our data provide the first measurement of the EMC effect in 3He at x > 0.4, and improve the known precision of the existing measurements of the effect in 4He and other nuclear targets at large x. The data have also been analyzed in terms of the structure function FA2 to examine the scaling of the inelastic scattering in x and xi. |
