Elastic Magnetic Electron Scattering from odd-A Nuclei

Abstract

Magnetic form factors from odd-A spherical and deformed nuclei corresponding to elastic electron scattering are calculated in the plane-wave Born approximation. The nuclear structure of the target is described within a deformed self-consistent mean-field calculation with effective interactions of Skyrme type and pairing correlations in the BCS approximation. We focus our attention to stable nuclei where experimental information is available. It is shown that the deformed formalism improves the agreement with experiment in deformed nuclei, while reproducing equally well spherical nuclei by taking properly the spherical limit of the deformed model. Effects of the collective rotation and nucleon-nucleon correlations are also studied. These results demonstrate the ability of the method to address electron scattering from unstable nuclei to be measured in future experiments on electron-ion beam colliders.