Off-shell electron-nucleon cross section and quasielastic response functionsRLandRT

Abstract
A new reduced version of the relativistic half off-shell virtual photon-nucleon vertex is suggested. The gauge invariance, on-shell condition and bound Dirac equation for initial nucleon state are used. Using this vertex, the quasielastic response functions RL and RT for medium heavy nuclei are evaluated and compared with the experimental data. The off-shell electron-nucleon cross section is also calculated and compared with other off-shell extrapolation.