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Interpreting the Neutron's Electric Form Factor: Rest Frame Charge Distribution or Foldy Term?

Nathan Isgur

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9812243

Abstract

The neutron's electric form factor contains vital information on nucleon structure, but its interpretation within many models has been obscured by relativistic effects. I demonstrate that, to leading order in the relativistic expansion of a constituent quark model, the Foldy term cancels exactly against a contribution to the Dirac form factor F1 to leave intact the naive interpretation of GnE as arising from the neutron's rest frame charge distribution.

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