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3 Charge radii and slope parameters

As is well known, e.m. form factors of hadrons contain valuable information on their quark structure and, particularly, on the hadronic dimensions or charge distributions. For example, in a non-relativistic potential-theory, assuming an electric charge density inside a hadron, with normalization , the electrostatic potential produced by a spinless, extended hadron turns out to be

where is the point-like Coulombic potential and the form factor appears as the Fourier transform of

 

with , known as the mean e.m. squared radius of H, directly connected to its spatial dimensions.





Carlos E.Piedrafita