Measurements of shadowing in low |Q2| electroproduction on nuclei

Abstract Measurements of inelastic electron scattering have been made in the range 2.2 ν Q 2 | c ) 2 , on a selection of nuclei ranging from hydrogen and deuterium to uranium, by measuring the scattered electron only. Detailed calculations have been made of the contribution of radiative tails to the measured yield. The results show a small ‘shadowing’ consistent with other electroproduction experiments, and also with photoproduction experiments in this ν range, but the shadowing decreases rapidly as | Q 2 | increases.