Partial-Wave Analysis of the Inelastic Scattering of Electrons by Nuclei. III. Systematics of Electric Multipole Excitation

The distorted-wave method for inelastic electron scattering is applied to a range of nuclei displaying electric multipole excitations under electron bombardment. It is found that a phenomenological vibrator model of the nucleus can, to a large extent, account for the behavior of the electron inelastic cross sections available from experiment, although, in many cases, the measured points cover an insufficient range of momentum transfer to make distinct the mode of vibration to be attributed to the excited nucleus.