Evaluation of Nuclear Effects in the Extraction of Neutron Form-Factors from the Deuteron.

The measurement of neutron elastic form-factors at high momentum transfer represents one of the important tasks of hadronic physics. However, because of the lack of a free neutron target, the deuteron or 3He targets are used in electro-production processes to extract neutron elastic form-factor data. As such, one of the main problems in extracting reliable data on neutron form-factors is to evaluate associated nuclear effects. In this work, we present the evaluation of the nuclear effects in the extraction of elastic form-factors of neutron in high Q2 exclusive electro-disintegration of the deuteron. In addition to the Fermi and off-shell effects for the first time, we present also the evaluation of final state interaction effects including charge interchange re-scattering. The latter is essential at large Q2, since in this case, the electron-neutron cross-section is several times less than the electro-proton cross-section. As a result the process in which electron scatters from the proton in the deuteron then the struck proton undergoes charge interchange re-interaction can significantly alter the extracted neutron data.