Global analysis of proton elastic form factor data with two-photon exchange corrections

Abstract
We use the world's data on elastic electron-proton scattering and calculations of two-photon exchange effects to extract corrected values of the proton's electric and magnetic form factors over the full Q2 range of the existing data. Our analysis combines the corrected Rosenbluth cross section and polarization transfer data, and is the first extraction of GE and GM including explicit two-photon exchange corrections and their associated uncertainties. In addition, we examine the angular dependence of the corrected cross sections to examine the possible nonlinearities of the cross section as a function of ɛ.

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