Electric polarizability of the deuteron

Abstract

An experimental value of the electric polarizability of the deuteron is extracted from deuteron photoabsoption data, a dispersion relation, and the low-energy theorem for Compton scattering. The experimental number requires the calculation of several small corrections, which are primarily magnetic in origin. Our value is somewhat smaller than, but consistent with, a recently reported experimental determination.NUCLEAR STRUCTURE Deuteron; electric polarizability; photodisintegration; sum rules.