Inelastic Electron Scattering at High Energies

Abstract

Field-theoretic model calculations for inelastic electron scattering show that (1) scaling laws must be weakly violated; (2) there is no evidence for $\frac{{\ensuremath{\sigma}}_{T}}{{\ensuremath{\sigma}}_{S}}=0 or \ensuremath{\infty}$; and (3) the angular spread in production amplitudes must increase as $|{Q}^{2}|$ increases and is roughly proportional to $|{Q}^{2}|$ for large $|{Q}^{2}|$, where $Q$ is the four-momentum of the virtual photon. Some experimental tests are suggested.