How to Reconcile the Rosenbluth and the Polarization Transfer Methods in the Measurement of the Proton Form Factors

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3 October 2003

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Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters

Vol. 91 (14) , 142303
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.91.142303

Abstract

The apparent discrepancy between the Rosenbluth and the polarization transfer methods for the ratio of the electric to magnetic proton form factors can be explained by a two-photon exchange correction which does not destroy the linearity of the Rosenbluth plot. Though intrinsically small, of the order of a few percent of the cross section, this correction is accidentally amplified in the case of the Rosenbluth method.

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