Phenomenology of the deuteron electromagnetic form factors

D. Abbott - et al.

doi:doi:10.1007/PL00013629

2021 Impact factor 3.131

Hadrons and Nuclei

Eur. Phys. J. A 7, 421-427

The Jefferson Lab t₂₀ Collaboration
D. Abbott⁶ - A. Ahmidouch^5,9 - H. Anklin⁸ - J. Arvieux^10,12 - J. Ball^1,10 - S. Beedoe⁹ - E.J. Beise⁴ - L. Bimbot¹² - W. Boeglin⁸ - H. Breuer⁴ - R. Carlini⁶ - N.S. Chant⁴ - S. Danagoulian^6,9 - K. Dow⁵ - J.-E. Ducret¹ - J. Dunne⁶ - L. Ewell⁴ - L. Eyraud² - C. Furget² - M. Garçon¹ - R. Gilman^6,7 - C. Glashausser⁷ - P. Gueye⁶ - K. Gustafsson⁴ - K. Hafidi¹ - A. Honegger³ - J. Jourdan³ - S. Kox² - G. Kumbartzki⁷ - L. Lu² - A. Lung⁴ - P. Markowitz⁸ - J. McIntyre⁷ - D. Meekins⁶ - F. Merchez² - J. Mitchell⁶ - R. Mohring⁴ - S. Mtingwa⁹ - H. Mrktchyan¹¹ - D. Pitz^1,4,6 - L. Qin⁶ - R. Ransome⁷ - J.-S. Réal² - P.G. Roos⁴ - P. Rutt⁷ - R. Sawafta⁹ - S. Stepanyan¹¹ - R. Tieulent² - E. Tomasi-Gustafsson^1,10 - W. Turchinetz⁵ - K. Vansyoc⁶ - J. Volmer⁶ - E. Voutier² - C. Williamson⁵ - S.A. Wood⁶ - C. Yan⁶ - J. Zhao³ - W. Zhao⁵

¹ DAPNIA/SPhN, CEA/Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
² ISN, IN2P3-UJF, 38026 Grenoble, France
³ Department of Physics, University of Basel, Switzerland
⁴ University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
⁵ M.I.T.-Bates Linear Accelerator, Middleton, MA 01949, USA
⁶ Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, VA 23606, USA
⁷ Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08855, USA
⁸ Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199, USA
⁹ North Carolina A. & T. State University, Greensboro, NC 27411, USA
¹⁰ LNS-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
¹¹ Yerevan Physics Institute, 375036 Yerevan, Armenia
¹² IPNO, IN2P3, BP 1, 91406 Orsay, France

Received: 28 January 2000 / Revised version: 25 February 2000 Communicated by Th. Walcher

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.

PACS
21.45.+v Few-body systems - 25.30.Bf Elastic electron scattering - 27.10.+h $A \le 5$ - 13.40.Gp Electromagnetic form factors