Are Electron Scattering Data Consistent with a Small Proton Radius?
Nuclear Experiment
2016-06-28 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
We determine the charge radius of the proton by analyzing the published low momentum transfer electron-proton scattering data from Mainz. We note that polynomial expansions of the form factor converge for momentum transfers squared below , where is the pion mass. Expansions with enough terms to fit the data, but few enough not to overfit, yield proton radii smaller than the CODATA or Mainz values and in accord with the muonic atom results. We also comment on analyses using a wider range of data, and overall obtain a proton radius ) fm.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1509.06676,
title = {Are Electron Scattering Data Consistent with a Small Proton Radius?},
author = {Keith Griffioen and Carl Carlson and Sarah Maddox},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.06676},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
10 pages, 14 figures