Form factors of excited baryons at highQ2and the transition to perturbative QCD

Transition form factors have been extracted from inclusive electron scattering data in the ${\mathit{Q}}^2$ range 1 to 10 ${\mathrm{GeV}}^2$/${\mathit{c}}^2$ for the Δ(1232) and second resonance, which is dominated by the ${\mathit{S}}_{11}$(1535). The form factor for the second resonance appears to approach a ${\mathit{Q}}^{\mathrm{-}4}$ dependence expected from leading-order perturbative QCD, while the form factor for the Δ(1232) decreases faster than ${\mathit{Q}}^{\mathrm{-}4}$, which would be expected when nonleading processes are dominant.