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Two-Photon Exchange: Future experimental prospects

Nuclear Experiment 2018-08-15 v1

Abstract

The proton elastic form factor ratio is accessible in unpolarized Rosenbluth-type experiments as well as experiments which make use of polarization degrees of freedom. The extracted values show a distinct discrepancy, growing with Q2Q^2. Three recent experiments tested the proposed explanation, two-photon exchange, by measuring the positron-proton to electron-proton cross section ratio. In the results, a small two-photon exchange effect is visible, significantly different from theoretical calculation. Theory at larger momentum transfer remains untested. This paper discusses the possibilities for future measurements at larger momentum transfer.

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@article{arxiv.1804.06665,
  title  = {Two-Photon Exchange: Future experimental prospects},
  author = {Jan C. Bernauer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.06665},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

7 pages, 4 figures. Contribution to the proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on the Physics of Excited Nucleons (NSTAR 2017)

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