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Interpreting the Neutron's Electric Form Factor: Rest Frame Charge Distribution or Foldy Term?

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2014-11-17 v1 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

The neutron's electric form factor contains vital information on nucleon structure, but its interpretation within many models has been obscured by relativistic effects. I demonstrate that, to leading order in the relativistic expansion of a constituent quark model, the Foldy term cancels exactly against a contribution to the Dirac form factor F_1 to leave intact the naive interpretation of G^n_E as arising from the neutron's rest frame charge distribution.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9812243,
  title  = {Interpreting the Neutron's Electric Form Factor: Rest Frame Charge Distribution or Foldy Term?},
  author = {Nathan Isgur},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9812243},
  year   = {2014}
}

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13 pages