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 , extracted from the scattering data, and that following from the muonic hydrogen data. For the electron energy much higher than the electron mass but much smaller than ~MeV, the relative correction has the universal form , where 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