  We consider a system of monodisperse hard spheres immersed in a sheared
fluid. We obtain the distortion of the structure factor of the hard spheres at
low shear rates, within a Percus-Yevick like framework. The consequent
distortion of the pair distribution function is shown to affect the transition
of the hard sphere fluid into a jammed state, which is similar to the
transition to the state of random close packing in the absence of shear.
