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1.1 Elastic Form Factors

If the two hadrons A and B are precisely the same, the final state has well defined charge conjugation which the above arguments require to be C = -1. This immediately implies and, consequently, the vanishing of the form factors at all for all the self-conjugate hadrons , i. e., those having all internal charges equal to zero. This is the case for the truly neutral mesons , but not for the electrically neutral mesons or baryons having other internal charges and an electromagnetically active substructure.

-data for the elastic form factors of a non-neutral hadron A, , cover the time-like region, , and complement the values of the corresponding spacelike region, . These are deducible from A-elastic scattering experiments on electrons, , (as well as on other e.m. fields) and contain the hadronic current matrix element with .

 
Figure 1: Feynman diagram for  



Carlos E.Piedrafita