  We calculate the electron-phonon scattering and binding in semiconducting
carbon nanotubes, within a tight binding model. The mobility is derived using a
multi-band Boltzmann treatment. At high fields, the dominant scattering is
inter-band scattering by LO phonons corresponding to the corners K of the
graphene Brillouin zone. The drift velocity saturates at approximately half the
graphene Fermi velocity. The calculated mobility as a function of temperature,
electric field, and nanotube chirality are well reproduced by a simple
interpolation formula. Polaronic binding give a band-gap renormalization of ~70
meV, an order of magnitude larger than expected. Coherence lengths can be quite
long but are strongly energy dependent.

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