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Coulomb corrections to electron scattering on the extended source and the proton charge radius

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2014-02-14 v1 Nuclear Theory Atomic Physics

Abstract

It is shown that the account for the proton charge form factor in the Coulomb corrections to the electron-proton scattering cross section noticeably diminishes the difference between the value of the proton charge radius rEr_{\mathrm{E}}, extracted from the epep scattering data, and that following from the muonic hydrogen data. For the electron energy much higher than the electron mass but much smaller than rE1230r_{\mathrm{E}}^{-1}\approx 230~MeV, the relative correction has the universal form δrE/rE=πα/2\delta r_{\mathrm{E}}/r_{\mathrm{E}}=-\pi\alpha/2, where α\alpha is the fine structure constant.

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@article{arxiv.1402.3054,
  title  = {Coulomb corrections to electron scattering on the extended source and the proton charge radius},
  author = {R. N. Lee and A. I. Milstein},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.3054},
  year   = {2014}
}

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4 pages, 1 figure