Date of Award
12-1989
Degree Name
Master of Arts
Department
Physics
First Advisor
Dr. Alvin Rosenthal
Second Advisor
Dr. E. M. Bernstein
Third Advisor
Dr. Sung Chung
Access Setting
Masters Thesis-Open Access
Abstract
This thesis presents an examination that the two nuclear charge form factors, relativistic and non-relativistic, are equivalent approximately in an appreciable range. The relativistic one is contributed by both vector charge density and tensor charge density. And the non-relativistic charge form factor is contributed by the nuclear densities from experimental electron scattering cross section, these densities are fundamental to much of nuclear structure physics.
The Dirac equation is used to calculate the vector charge density and tensor density, because the charge density from the analysis of the experimental data may be compared with proton charge densities obtained from various models of nuclear structure. The standard procedure for calculating charge densities from the Schroedinger equation is no longer correct if nucleons obey the Dirac equation.
This work only explored the case of a single state (ground state) of a single particle.
Recommended Citation
Wang, Tao, "Relativistic and Non-Relativistic Nuclear Charge Form Factors" (1989). Masters Theses. 1163.
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/masters_theses/1163