SHADOWING IN INELASTIC LEPTON-DEUTERON SCATTERING

Shadowing in inelastic lepton-deuteron scattering is analysed using the double interaction formalism where we relate shadowing to inclusive diffractive processes. Both the vector meson and parton contributions are considered for low and high Q2 values including QCD corrections with parton recombination for high Q2. These Q2 values were chosen to correspond to existing experimental data and to the possible HERA measurements. Detailed discussion of various shadowing mechanisms is given. As expected the shadowing effects are found to be very small, less then 2% or so, in agreement with the recent precise measurements performed by the New Muon Collaboration. The contribution of shadowing term to the Gottfried sum from the region x > 0.004 and for Q2 = 4GeV2 is estimated to be equal to -0.025.