Two-Photon Exchange in Electron-Deuteron Scattering

19 February 1973

journal article
research article
Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters

Vol. 30 (8) , 345-348
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.30.345

Abstract

We show that multiple scattering of the electron (i.e., two-photon exchange) in electron-deuteron elastic scattering leads to a small component in the cross section, which decreases very slowly with momentum transfer and may dominate the cross section at high momentum transfer.

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