How Well Do We Know the Electromagnetic Form Factors of the Proton?

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20 September 2002

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.hep-ph/0209243

Abstract

Recent measurements of recoil polarization in elastic scattering have been used to extract the ratio of the electric to the magnetic proton form factors. These results disagree with Rosenbluth extractions from cross section measurements, indicating either an inconsistency between the two techniques, or a problem with either the polarization transfer or cross section measurements. To obtain precise knowledge of the proton form factors, we must first understand the source of this discrepancy.

Keywords

CROSS SECTION MEASUREMENTS
SECTION MEASUREMENTS
ELECTROMAGNETIC FORM
PROTON FORM FACTORS
POLARIZATION
EXTRACTIONS
SCATTERING

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Version 1, 2002-09-20, ArXiv
Published version: The European Physical Journal A, 17 (3), 311.

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