DEUTERON MAGNETIC FORM-FACTOR MEASUREMENTS AT HIGH MOMENTUM TRANSFER

Dec, 1986
14 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.Lett. 58 (1987) 1723
Report number:
  • SLAC-PUB-4145
Experiments:

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Abstract: (APS)
The deuteron magnetic form factor B(Q2) has been measured at momentum transfers Q2=1.21, 1.49, 1.61, 1.74, 1.98, 2.23, 2.48, 2.53, and 2.77 (GeV/c)2 at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center by detection of electrons backscattered at 180° in coincidence with recoiling deuterons at 0°. The data for B(Q2) are found to decrease rapidly from Q2=1.2 to 2 (GeV/c)2, then rise to a secondary maximum around Q2=2.5 (GeV/c)2, in qualitative agreement with impulse-approximation calculations.
  • talk
  • electron deuteron: elastic scattering
  • elastic scattering: electron deuteron
  • electron: backscatter
  • backscatter: electron
  • deuteron: form factor
  • form factor: deuteron
  • form factor: magnetic
  • magnetic: form factor
  • dependence: momentum transfer