Measurements of Transverse Quasielastic Electron Scattering from the Deuteron at High Momentum Transfers

R. G. Arnold; D. Benton; P. Bosted; L. Clogher; G. DeChambrier; A. T. Katramatou; J. Lambert; A. Lung; G. G. Petratos; A. Rahbar; S. E. Rock; Z. M. Szalata; B. Debebe; M. Frodyma; R. S. Hicks; A. Hotta; G. A. Peterson; R. A. Gearhart; J. Alster; J. Lichtenstadt; F. Dietrich; K. van Bibber

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.61.806

Measurements of Transverse Quasielastic Electron Scattering from the Deuteron at High Momentum Transfers

R. G. Arnold, D. Benton, P. Bosted, L. Clogher, G. DeChambrier, A. T. Katramatou, J. Lambert, A. Lung, G. G. Petratos, A. Rahbar, S. E. Rock, Z. M. Szalata, B. Debebe, M. Frodyma, R. S. Hicks, A. Hotta, G. A. Peterson, R. A. Gearhart, J. Alster, J. Lichtenstadt, F. Dietrich, and K. van Bibber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 61, 806 – Published 15 August 1988

Abstract

Cross sections for 180° inelastic electron scattering from deuterium were measured from breakup threshold to beyond the quasielastic peak for incident-beam energies of 0.843, 1.020, 1.189, and 1.281 GeV, corresponding to $0.75 \leq Q^{2} \leq 2.57$ ${(G e V / c)}^{2}$ . The data are in reasonable agreement with nonrelativistic models that include final-state interactions and meson-exchange currents. The scaling function $F (y)$ for these data is generally in agreement with $F (y)$ for forward-angle data at the same $Q^{2}$ . Values of $G_{M}^{n}$ determined from the data are in good agreement with results from previous experiments.

Received 2 May 1988

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.61.806

Authors & Affiliations

R. G. Arnold, D. Benton^*, P. Bosted, L. Clogher, G. DeChambrier, A. T. Katramatou, J. Lambert^†, A. Lung, G. G. Petratos, A. Rahbar, S. E. Rock, and Z. M. Szalata

The American University, Washington, D.C. 20016

B. Debebe, M. Frodyma, R. S. Hicks, A. Hotta^‡, and G. A. Peterson

University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003

R. A. Gearhart

Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94309

J. Alster and J. Lichtenstadt

Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel 69978

F. Dietrich and K. van Bibber

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550

^*Present address: Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544.
^†Permanent address: Department of Physics, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057.
^‡Permanent address: School of Physics, Shizuoka University, Shizuoka, 422 Japan.