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Charge conjugation invariance of the Spectator Equations
In response to recent critcism, we show how to define the spectator equations
for negative energies so that charge conjugation invariance is preserved. The
result, which emerges naturally from the application of spectator principles to
systems of particles with negative energies, is to replace all factors of the
external energies by , insuring that the amplitudes are
independent of the sign of the energies .Comment: 10 pages; 4 figure
Relativistic Theory of Few-Body Systems
Very significant advances have been made in the relativistic theory of few
body systems since I visited Peter Sauer and his group in Hannover in 1983.
This talk provides an opportunity to review the progress in this field since
then. Different methods for the realtivistic calculation of few nucleon systems
are briefly described. As an example, seven relativistic calculations of the
deuteron elastic structure functions, , , and , are compared. The
covariant spectator theory, among the more successful and complete of these
methods, is described in more detail.Comment: 13 pages, 4 figures, Invited talk to the 2002 CFIF Fall Workshop on
Nuclear Dynamics: From Quarks to Nuclei (in honor of Peter Sauer) 31 Oct - 2
Nov 2002, Lisbon, Portuga
Extraction of the Ratio of the Neutron to Proton Structure Functions from Deep Inelastic Scattering
We study the nuclear () dependence of the European Muon Collaboration
(EMC) effect at high values of (). Our approach makes use of
conventional nuclear degrees of freedom within the Relativistic Impulse
Approximation. By performing a non-relativistic series expansion we demonstrate
that relativistic corrections make a substantial contribution to the effect at
and show that the ratio of neutron to proton structure
functions extracted from a global fit to all nuclei is not inconsistent with
values obtained from the deuteron.Comment: 12 pages, 2 figures available upon request, Revte
The deuteron: a mini-review
We review some recent results for elastic electron deuteron scattering
(deuteron form factors) and photodisintegration of the deuteron, with emphasis
on the recent high energy data from Jefferson Laboratory (JLab).Comment: 14 pages, 11 figures, Invited talk given to the Conference on Mesons
& Light Nuclei, held in Prague, Czech Republic, July 2- 6, 200
Electromagnetic structure of the deuteron
Recent measurements of the deuteron electromagnetic structure functions A, B,
and extracted from high energy elastic scattering, and the cross
sections and asymmetries extracted from high energy photodisintegration
, are reviewed and compared to theory. The theoretical
calculations range from nonrelativistic and relativistic models using the
traditional meson and baryon degrees of freedom, to effective field theories,
to models based on the underlying quark and gluon degrees of freedom of QCD,
including nonperturbative quark cluster models and perturbative QCD. We review
what has been learned from these experiments, and discuss why elastic
scattering and photodisintegration seem to require very different theoretical
approaches, even though they are closely related experimentally.Comment: review paper; 93 pages, 35 figure
A Comment on General Formulae for Polarization Observables in Deuteron Electrodisintegration and Linear Relations
We establish a simple, explicit relation between the formalisms employed in
the treatments of polarization observables in deuteron two-body
electrodisintegration published by Arenh\"ovel, Leidemann, and Tomusiak in
Few-Body Systems {\bf 15}, 109 (1993) and the results of the present authors
published in Phys.~Rev.~C {\bf 40}, 2479 (1989). We comment on the overlap
between the two sets of results.Comment: 9 pages, no figure
Covariant spectator theory of np scattering: Deuteron quadrupole moment
The deuteron quadrupole moment is calculated using two covariant spectator theory model wave functions obtained from the 2007 high-precision fits to np scattering data. Included in the calculation are a new class of isoscalar np interaction currents automatically generated by the nuclear force model used in these fits. The prediction for model WJC-1, with larger relativistic P-state components, is 2.5% smaller than the experimental result, in common with the inability of models prior to 2014 to predict this important quantity. However, model WJC-2, with very small P-state components, gives agreement to better than 1%, similar to the results obtained recently from chiral effective field theory predictions to next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order
Spin and angular momentum in the nucleon
Using the covariant spectator theory (CST), we present the results of a
valence quark-diquark model calculation of the nucleon structure function f(x)
measured in unpolarized deep inelastic scattering (DIS), and the structure
functions g1(x) and g2(x) measured in DIS using polarized beams and targets.
Parameters of the wave functions are adjusted to fit all the data. The fit
fixes both the shape of the wave functions and the relative strength of each
component. Two solutions are found that fit f(x) and g1(x), but only one of
these gives a good description of g2(x). This fit requires the nucleon CST wave
functions contain a large D-wave component (about 35%) and a small P-wave
component (about 0.6%). The significance of these results is discussed.Comment: 27 pages; 13 figure
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