Published May 1989 | Version v1
Journal article

Use of form factors in electromagnetic interactions

  • 1. National Institute of Nuclear Physics and High-Energy Physics (NIKHEF, section K), 1009 DB Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Description

We comment on the description of electromagnetic reactions involving hadrons, when the internal structure of the hadrons is taken into account. General off-shell vertex operators, only constrained by Lorentz and gauge invariance, are used. The electromagnetic production of pions on a nucleon is discussed as an example. Commonly used ad hoc recipes involving phenomenological form factors are discussed in the framework of an exact formulation

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review, C
Journal Volume
39
Journal Issue
5
Series
Phys. Rev., C.
Journal Page Range
1907-1913
ISSN
0556-2813
CODEN
PRVCA