EXTRACTING THE NEUTRON STRUCTURE-FUNCTION

Nuclear effects in deep scattering experiments play an important role in the extraction of the neutron structure function. Traditionally, th ese effects have been neglected when the extraction from combined expe rimental data on proton and deuteron is performed. As the neutron stru cture function participates in the verification of quark-parton sum ru les and QCD predictions, these effects have appreciable consequences a nd, in fact, have led to several failures in these kind of verificatio ns. At the same time, model estimates of these effects bring accordanc e between data and theoretical expectations. The present article aims to review and summarize results on these topics.