Abstract
The elastic-electron scattering cross sections from and have been measured at incident electron energies between 170 and 750 MeV. Cross sections were separated into their longitudinal (charge) and transverse (magnetic) contributions using the Rosenbluth formula. Values of the charge form factor have been extracted to and for the magnetic form factor to . The form factor has been determined up to 6.2 . Densities for the charge and magnetization have been deduced from phenomenological models used in a phase-shift solution of the Dirac equation. A model-independent determination of the nuclear densities has been performed in order to obtain realistic errors on the extracted distributions. After unfolding the nucleon size from the distributions the point density is shown to have a significant central depression for a radius <0.8 fm for both and . Comparison of the form factors is made with Faddeev and variational three-body calculations that use realistic two-body interactions. The influence of off-shell effects, three-body forces, meson-exchange corrections, and short-range correlations are discussed. At present no theoretical calculation that uses input derived entirely from nucleon-nucleon scattering is able to reproduce the experimental data.
NUCLEAR REACTIONS , MeV; measured . Measured charge form factor to and magnetic form factor to . Measured form factor to . Deduced nuclear charge, magnetic and point-nucleon distributions from model-independent analysis.
- Received 2 August 1976
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.15.1396
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