Some relativistic aspects of nuclear dynamics at the electrodisintegration of nuclei

Abstract

An approach aimed to extend the applicability range of the nonrelativistic microscopic calculations of electronuclear response functions is reviewed. In the quasielastic peak region these calculations agree with experiment at momentum transfers up to about 0.4 GeV/c, while at higher momentum transfers being beyond 1 GeV/c a disagreement is seen. In view of this, a reference frame where dynamic relativistic corrections are small was employed to calculate the response functions and the results were transformed exactly to the laboratory reference frame. This proved to remove the major part of the disagreement with experiment. All leading-order relativistic corrections to the transition charge operator and to the one-body part of the transition current operator were taken into account in the calculations. Furthermore, a particular model to determine the kinematical inputs of the nonrelativistic calculations was introduced. This model provides the correct relativistic relationship between the reaction final-state energy and the momenta of the knocked-out nucleon and the residual system. The above-mentioned choice of a reference frame in conjunction with this model has led to an even better agreement with experiment.