Phenomenology of the Deuteron Electromagnetic Form Factors
Abstract
A rigorous extraction of the deuteron charge form factors from tensor polarization data in elastic electron-deuteron scattering, at given values of the 4-momentum transfer, is presented. Then the world data for elastic electron-deuteron scattering is used to parameterize, in three different ways, the three electromagnetic form factors of the deuteron in the 4-momentum transfer range 0-7 fm^-1. This procedure is made possible with the advent of recent polarization measurements. The parameterizations allow a phenomenological characterization of the deuteron electromagnetic structure. They can be used to remove ambiguities in the form factors extraction from future polarization data.
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@article{arxiv.nucl-ex/0002003,
title = {Phenomenology of the Deuteron Electromagnetic Form Factors},
author = {TheJLAB t20 collaboration and D. Abbott},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-ex/0002003},
year = {2008}
}
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18 pages (LaTeX), 2 figures Feb. 25: minor changes of content and in Table I