RELATIVISTIC DESCRIPTION OF ELECTRON-SCATTERING ON THE DEUTERON

Within a quasipotential framework a relativistic analysis is presented of the deuteron current. Assuming that the singularities from the nuc leon propagators are important, a so-called equal time approximation o f the current is constructed. This is applied to both elastic and inel astic electron scattering. AS dynamical model the relativistic one bos on exchange model is used. Reasonable agreement is found with a previo us relativistic calculation of the elastic electromagnetic form factor s of the deuteron. For the unpolarized inelastic electron scattering e ffects of final-state interactions and relativistic corrections to the structure functions are considered in the impulse approximation. Two specific kinematic situations are studied as examples.