THE D(E,E'P)DELTA PROCESS AS AN EXAMPLE OF QUARK-EXCHANGE CURRENTS INLEADING ORDER

It is shown that the off-shell disintegration d --> Delta Delta amplit ude is determined mainly by quark exchange. So the process d(e,e'p)Del ta with E(p) being large, E(p) > 1 GeV, and Delta being practically at rest is in leading order determined by the quark exchange currents. T he cross section for this process is only two orders of magnitude less than the cross section for the well known process d(e,e'p)n and could thus, in principle, be measured.