Eur. Phys. J. A (2008) 36: 85-99
https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2007-10541-0

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Deep inelastic electron scattering on nuclei within a fully relativistic model

¹ Sezione di Genova, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Via Dodecaneso 33, 16146, Genova, Italy
² Institute for Nuclear Research, 117312, Moscow, Russia

^* e-mail: cenni@ge.infn.it

Received: 5 November 2007
Accepted: 24 February 2008
Published online: 22 April 2008

Abstract

In a recent paper we have developed a theoretical frame suitable to handle finite systems in a fully covariant way preserving translational invariance. Further, we have also introduced the relativistic counterpart of the shell model displaying the same invariance properties. We apply now the above theory to a practical case, by investigating how a covariant single-particle description of a nucleus can be implemented on ⁴He , ¹²C and ¹⁶O and how the inelastic electron scattering, within the frame of the Plane-Wave Impulse Approximation (PWIA), can be recovered, still preserving the Poincaré invariance.