Elastic Electron-Deuteron Scattering with New Nucleon-Nucleon Potentials and Nucleon Form Factors

Abstract

We present elastic e-d scattering observables obtained from the recent N-N interaction models proposed by the Bonn and Nijmegen groups. In particular, we discuss the pertinent results for the electric and magnetic structure functions as well as the deuteron tensor polarization and charge form factor, especially with respect to their dependence on the choice of the nucleon form factors. We find that for these new N-N potentials only a particular model of nucleon form factors, different from the traditional ones, allows for a comprehensive reproduction of all elastic e-d data at low and moderate momentum transfers.