Measurements of Transverse Quasielastic Electron Scattering from the Deuteron at High Momentum Transfers

Cross sections for 180^∘{} inelastic electron scattering from deuterium were measured from breakup threshold to beyond the quasielastic peak for incident-beam energies of 0.843, 1.020, 1.189, and 1.281 GeV, corresponding to 0.75≤Q²≤2.57 (GeV/c)². The data are in reasonable agreement with nonrelativistic models that include final-state interactions and meson-exchange currents. The scaling function $F(y)$ for these data is generally in agreement with $F(y)$ for forward-angle data at the same Q². Values of GMⁿ determined from the data are in good agreement with results from previous experiments.