CONSISTENT TREATMENT OF RELATIVISTIC EFFECTS IN ELECTRODISINTEGRATIONOF THE DEUTERON

The influence of relativistic contributions to deuteron electrodisinte gration is systematically studied in various kinematic regions of ener gy and momentum transfer. As theoretical framework the equation-of-mot ion and the unitarily equivalent S-matrix approaches are used. In a (p /M) expansion, all leading order relativistic pi-exchange contribution s consistent with the Bonn one-boson-exchange potential model (OBEPQ) are included. In addition, static heavy-meson-exchange currents includ ing boost terms, gamma pi rho/omega currents, and h-isobar contributio ns are considered. Sizable effects from the various relativistic two-b ody contributions, mainly from pi exchange, have been found in inclusi ve form factors and exclusive structure functions for a variety of kin ematic regions.