Electromagnetic properties of the deuteron in a relativistic one-boson exchange model

Abstract

The deuteron electric electromagnetic form factors are studied in a quasi-potential framework, where relativistic and meson-exchange contributions are treated consistently. At moderate momentum transfer the corrections to the static approximation are found to be significantly less than estimates obtained in the conventional perturbational treatment. It is argued that this is due to the neglect of dynamical corrections to the wave function in the latter approach.