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Mr. Maxwell's journey into hadron country (electromagnetic currents in nuclei)

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In these lectures an introduction is given into the main features of nuclear structure investigations by photoabsorption and electron scattering. After a brief review of the general structure of the electromagnetic interaction, the gauge conditions and low-energy theorems for the electromagnetic interaction operators are discussed. The various theoretical schemes for incorporating subnuclear degrees of freedom either as effective operators like the pion exchange current or explicitely like in the model of nuclear isobar configurations are reviewed. At the end, a few specific experiments are discussed as an illustration of what can be learned from such experiments.

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Lectures held at the Indian-Summer School on Electromagnetic and Weak Interactions of Particles with Nuclei, Sázava, Czechoslovakia, 6–11 September 1992.

Supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (SFB 201).

I would like to thank the organizers for the invitation to this school and for the warm hospitality during my stay. Furthermore, I am very thankful to M. Kirchbach for many constructive remarks and G. Beck for his careful reading of the manuscript.

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Arenhövel, H. Mr. Maxwell's journey into hadron country (electromagnetic currents in nuclei). Czech J Phys 43, 207–258 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01589846

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