Measurements of Transverse Quasielastic Electron Scattering from the Deuteron at High Momentum Transfers

Abstract

Cross sections for 180\ifmmode^\circ\else\textdegree\fi{} inelastic electron scattering from deuterium were measured from breakup threshold to beyond the quasielastic peak for incident-beam energies of 0.843, 1.020, 1.189, and 1.281 GeV, corresponding to $0.75\ensuremath{\le}{Q}^{2}\ensuremath{\le}2.57$ ${(\mathrm{G}\mathrm{e}\mathrm{V}/\mathit{c})}^{2}$. The data are in reasonable agreement with nonrelativistic models that include final-state interactions and meson-exchange currents. The scaling function $F(y)$ for these data is generally in agreement with $F(y)$ for forward-angle data at the same ${Q}^{2}$. Values of ${G}_{M}^{n}$ determined from the data are in good agreement with results from previous experiments.