Relativistic Corrections top−pScattering

Abstract

Effects of wave function distortion by nuclear forces of nonelectromagnetic origin are qualitatively considered. It is found that the relativistic corrections to the Coulomb wave contain effects of wave function distortion which may affect these corrections by reasonably large fractional amounts. The spin-orbit interactions arising from the action of the electric field are found to be affected by wave function distortion. Since these interactions affect the polarization of proton beams in double and triple scattering, the analysis of high-energy data is affected. The theory of spin-orbit interactions is brought into relation with that of atomic spectra. The unreliability of contact terms contained in the relativistic corrections is brought out. A concise proof of the vanishing of first-order tensor force effects on the polarization applying independently of the origin of the tensor force effects is supplied in an appendix.