Interpreting the Neutron's Electric Form Factor: Rest Frame Charge Distribution or Foldy Term?
- 12 July 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 83 (2) , 272-275
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.83.272
Abstract
The neutron's electric form factor contains vital information on nucleon structure, but its interpretation within many models has been obscured by relativistic effects. I demonstrate that, to leading order in the relativistic expansion of a constituent quark model, the Foldy term cancels exactly against a contribution to the Dirac form factor to leave intact the naive interpretation of as arising from the neutron's rest frame charge distribution.
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