In the light of a recent claim that models of nuclear shadowing which incorporate a vector meson dominance component at low Q² are incompatible with nuclear deep inelastic scattering data, we compare the predictions of such a model with high precision data on the Q² dependence of nuclear shadowing. Contrary to this claim, we find that models which incorporate both vector meson and partonic mechanisms are indeed consistent with both the magnitude and the Q² slope of the shadowing data.

Authors: Wally Melnitchouk, A.W. Thomas

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