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.