INELASTIC ELECTRON-PROTON AND y-PROTON SCATTERING, ANDTHESTRUCTUREOFTHENUCLEON*

aA model for highly inelastic electron-nucleon scattering at high energies is studied and compared with existing data. This model envisages the proton to be composed of point-like constituents (“partons”) from which the electron scatters incoherently. We propose that the model be tested by observing y-rays scattered inelastically in a similar way from the nucleon. The magnitude of this inelastic Comptonscattering cross section can be predicted from existing electronscattering data, indicating that the experiment is feasible, but difficult, at presently available energies. (Submitted to Phys. Rev. ) -* Work supported by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. _