PARITY-VIOLATING ELECTRON-SCATTERING FROM THE PION-CORRELATED RELATIVISTIC FERMI GAS

Parity-violating quasielastic electron scattering is studied within th e context of the relativistic Fermi gas and its extensions to include the effects of pionic correlations and meson-exchange currents. The wo rk builds on previous studies using the same model; here the part of t he parity-violating asymmetry that contains axial-vector hadronic curr ents is developed in detail using those previous studies and a link is provided to the transverse vector-isovector response. Various integra ted observables are constructed from the differential asymmetry. These include an asymmetry averaged over the quasielastic peak, as well as the difference of the asymmetry integrated to the left and right of th e peak - the latter is shown to be optimal for bringing out the nature of the pionic correlations. Special weighted integrals involving the differential asymmetry and electromagnetic cross section, based on the concepts of y-scaling and sum rules, are constructed and shown to be suited to studies of the single-nucleon form factor content in the pro blem, in particular, to determinations of the isovector/axial-vector a nd electric strangeness form factors. Comparisons are also made with r ecent predictions made on the basis of relativistic mean-field theory.