Griffiths Introduction to Elementary Particles · Problem 8.15

Quantum Chromodynamics — David J. Griffiths

Physics — QFT · electron-neutron-scattering

Problem

Electron-neutron scattering experiments are harder to do than electron-proton experiments, because you cannot make a target of free neutrons. Nevertheless, the essential data can be inferred from electron-deuteron scattering, and it is found that ∫01F2neutron dx=0.12\int_0^1 F_2^{\text{neutron}}\, dx = 0.12 Use this, together with the proton result ∫01F2proton dx=0.18\int_0^1 F_2^{\text{proton}}\, dx = 0.18 to confirm equation (8.57). [Hint: How do you suppose un(x)u^n(x) and dn(x)d^n(x) are related to the corresponding functions for the proton?]

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