A ug 2 01 0 Scaling of the F 2 structure function in nuclei and quark distributions at x > 1

N. Fomin, 2 J. Arrington, D. B. Day, D. Gaskell, A. Daniel, J. Seely, R. Asaturyan, ∗ F. Benmokhtar, W. Boeglin, B. Boillat, P. Bosted, A. Bruell, M. H. S. Bukhari, M. E. Christy, E. Chudakov, B. Clasie, S. H. Connell, M. M. Dalton, D. Dutta, 14 R. Ent, L. El Fassi, H. Fenker, B. W. Filippone, K. Garrow, C. Hill, R. J. Holt, T. Horn, 4 M. K. Jones, J. Jourdan, N. Kalantarians, C. E. Keppel, 11 D. Kiselev, M. Kotulla, R. Lindgren, A. F. Lung, S. Malace, P. Markowitz, P. McKee, D. G. Meekins, T. Miyoshi, H. Mkrtchyan, T. Navasardyan, G. Niculescu, Y. Okayasu, A. K. Opper, C. Perdrisat, D. H. Potterveld, V. Punjabi, X. Qian, P. E. Reimer, J. Roche, 4 V.M. Rodriguez, O. Rondon, E. Schulte, E. Segbefia, K. Slifer, G. R. Smith, P. Solvignon, V. Tadevosyan, S. Tajima, L. Tang, 11 G. Testa, R. Trojer, V. Tvaskis, W. F. Vulcan, C. Wasko, F. R. Wesselmann, S. A. Wood, J. Wright, and X. Zheng 3 University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, USA Thomas Jefferson National Laboratory, Newport News, VA, USA University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA Yerevan Physics Institute, Armenia University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA Basel University, Basel, Switzerland Hampton University, Hampton, VA, USA University of Johannesburg, South Africa Mississippi State University, Jackson, MS, USA Duke University, Durham, NC, USA Kellogg Radiation Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA, USA Ohio University, Athens, OH, USA College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, USA Norfolk State University, Norfolk, VA, USA (Dated: January 1, 2013)