ANALYSIS OF CHARGE-DENSITY DISTRIBUTIONS IN NUCLEI

The method of model-independent analysis of experimental nuclear form factors is used to study available data for 14 nuclei from He-4 to Pb- 208 With the aim of constructing their experimental charge-density dis tributions on the basis of a unified procedure for the entire set of n uclei. A special feature of the method is that its trial functions hav e the correct exponential asymptotic form. The relative changes in the charge density of the nuclei with increasing atomic weights and ambig uities inherent in such model-independent analyses are discussed. The high-momentum-transfer region where experimental data can be explained only by taking into account so-called radial variations in the charge -density distributions is specified.