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Note on the electromagnetic radius of proton

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2024-01-12 v1 Nuclear Experiment Nuclear Theory Popular Physics

Abstract

We have analyzed the proton form factor data by using a number of phenomenological parameterizations (models) and extracting the proton electric and magnetic radii. To this end we performed a global fit to all available form factor data, with the virtual photon momentum squared Q2Q^2 from 0.00020.0002 to nearly 10 GeV2^2 for electric form factor and from 0.0150.015 to 31 GeV2^2 for magnetic one. Special attention was given to the small structure shown by the form factor data near Q2=0.2Q^2 = 0.2 GeV2^2. It was found that different models yield different structures with different numbers of minimum at this kinematics. Since the slope of form factor in the limit of Q20Q^2\to 0 is influenced by this structure, the extracted proton radii are consequently different for different models. Our finding recommends that future experiments should focus on this kinematics instead of low Q2Q^2. Experimental data with accuracies comparable to those of the latest data at low Q2Q^2 would clearly help to clarify the effect of this structure on the proton charge radius. Interestingly, most of the extracted proton charge radii were found to be closer to the value obtained from the muonic hydrogen atom spectroscopy.

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@article{arxiv.2308.14950,
  title  = {Note on the electromagnetic radius of proton},
  author = {M. Ridwan and T. Mart},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.14950},
  year   = {2024}
}

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25 pages, 9 figures, submitted to Modern Physics Letters A

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