PREDICTIONS FOR THE 4 GEV TJNAF INCLUSIVE ELECTRON-SCATTERING EXPERIMENT AND FOR FSI EFFECTS IN EMC RATIOS

We express nuclear structure functions F-i(A) as generalized convoluti ons of the structure function of a nucleon and of a nucleus, composed of point-nucleons. In computations of the latter we include final stat e interactions and results for F-2(A) are compared with a few directly measured data on C and Fe. The above-mentioned F-i(A) are primarily u sed for predictions of the TJNAF 89-008 inclusive scattering experimen t of 4 GeV electrons on various targets. Those targets cover a broad a ngular, and correspondingly wide x, Q(2) range, where the nucleon-inel astic Dart dominates large sections of the covered kinematics. The sam e model has been applied to the study of hitherto neglected final stat e interaction effects in the nuclear component in EMC ratios in the re gion 0.25 less than or similar to x less than or similar to 0.85. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science B.V.