RELATIVISTIC CORRECTIONS IN QUASI-FREE ELECTRODISINTEGRATION OF THE DEUTERON

The role of relativistic effects in deuteron break-up by electrons is investigated for quasi-free kinematics by including the lowest-order relativistic corrections beyond the nonrelativistic limit to electromagnetic operators and by wave-function boost. In particular, the dependence of form factors and structure functions on the frame in which they are calculated is studied. It is found that the inclusion of these corrections leads to observables that are less frame-dependent than for a pure nonrelativistic description. The boost contributions show a decisive influence even though they are small in absolute size. Furthermore, the dependence on the parametrization of the nucleon current in terms of Dirac-Pauli or Sachs form factors is considerably reduced by inclusion of relativistic contributions.