Scattering of GeV electrons in the framework of the relativistic Hartree approximation

A. MARIANO, C. BARBERO, F. KRMPOTIC

BRAZILIAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICS

Sociedad Barsilera de Física

Lugar: San Pablo; Año: 2004 vol. 34 p. 1024 - 1028

0103-9733

The high momentum transfer electron-nucleus scattering cross section is evaluated within the plane wave impulseapproximation (PWIA) supplemented by the relativistic Hartree approximation (RHA). Binding effectson the struck nucleon are introduced through the scalar and vector meson-exchange fields within the framework of quantum hadrodynamics. This model naturally satisfies the current conservation, with the off-shell nucleons behaving as being on the mass shell but having an effective mass. The nucleon inelastic response is included via different parameterizations of the structure function measured at SLAC, while the smearing of the Fermisurface is introduced through a momentum distribution obtained from a perturbative nuclear matter calculation.Recent CEBAF data on inclusive scattering of 4:05 GeV electrons on 56Fe are well reproduced for all measured geometries by the first time. Scaling effects are analyzed as well, and the scaling properties of the nuclearresponse in terms of the y variable associated to the PWIA within the RHA framework are discussed. The theoretical scaling function obtained in our approach also significantly improves previous PWIA calculationswithin the multi-GeV electron scattering regime, and describes properly the CEBAF scaling data.