Hadron structure in medium Original Research Article

The quark meson coupling model may be viewed as a natural generalization of QHD which takes into account the internal structure of the nucleon. In such an approach it is natural for the properties of the nucleon to change in medium. We discuss the change in the proton electric and magnetic form factors when it is bound in a specific shell model orbit. Modern quasi-elastic electron scattering experiments should be able to detect effects of the size predicted. We also examine the mean field potential felt by an ω in a finite nucleus, concluding that the ω should be bound by between 50 and 100 MeV.