Elastic electron scattering from the deuteron with the spectator equation

Journal Article · Wed May 10 04:00:00 EDT 1995 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.48098· OSTI ID:240367

Van Orden, J W ^[1]; Gross, F ^[2]; Devine, N ^[3]

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1. Department of Physics, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia 23529 (United States)
2. Department of Physics, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia 23185 (United States)
3. Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility, 12000 Jefferson Avenue, Newport News, Virginia 23606 (United States)

A covariant description of elastic electron scattering from the deuteron is constructed with the spectator or Gross equation [1] which has been used with some success in models of the nucleon-nucleon interaction [2]. This equation can be related to the Bethe-Salpeter equation by placing one of the intermediate state particles on the positive energy mass shell. This constraint on the relative energy is manifestly covariant and has the same physical meaning in all reference frames. This simplifies the imposition of the constraint in diagrams representing current matrix elements. The diagrams for the elastic form factors of the deuteron are shown in Fig. 1. {copyright} {ital 1995} {ital American} {ital Institute} {ital of} {ital Physics}.

• Research Organization: Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-84ER40150
• OSTI ID: 240367
• Report Number(s): CONF-9405132--
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Journal Name: AIP Conference Proceedings Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 334; ISSN 0094-243X; ISSN APCPCS
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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THEORETICAL DATA
WAVE FUNCTIONS