Scaling relations for hadron charge exchange continuum scattering from carbon

Two scaling relations, familiar from analyses of electron scattering and successful over limited kinematic ranges for hadron scattering, are applied to 45 charge exchange spectra from beams of protons and pions on carbon. As with scattering without charge exchange, the conditions that underlie scaling analyses of quasifree scattering are in doubt for intermediate energy hadron beams, and scaling analyses are tests of strong assumptions. Scaling for charge exchange reactions is found in the sense that scaled responses for both beam species and all beam energies are in near agreement over a limited but useful range of momentum transfers, especially at small energy losses where nucleon dynamic effects are strong. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.