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We show that in previous analyses of electron-proton scattering, the uncertainties in the statistical procedure to extract the proton charge radius are underestimated. Using a fit function based on a conformal mapping, we can describe the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-08-28 I. T. Lorenz , U. -G. Meißner

Elastic scattering of relativistic electrons from the nucleon yields Lorentz invariant form factors that describe the fundamental distribution of charge and magnetism. The spatial dependence of the nucleon's charge and magnetism is…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-06-28 T. W. Donnelly , D. K. Hasell , R. G. Milner

We extract the proton charge radius from the elastic form factor (FF) data using a novel theoretical framework combining chiral effective field theory and dispersion analysis. Complex analyticity in the momentum transfer correlates the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-04-09 J. M. Alarcón , D. W. Higinbotham , C. Weiss , Z. Ye

We review determinations of the electric proton charge radius from a diverse set of low-energy observables. We explore under which conditions it can be related to Wilson coefficients of appropriate effective field theories. This discussion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-04 Clara Peset , Antonio Pineda , Oleksandr Tomalak

The proton charge-radius determinations from the electromagnetic form-factor measurements in electron-proton scattering require an extrapolation to zero momentum transfer ($Q^2=0$) which is prone to model-dependent assumptions. We show that…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-08-07 Franziska Hagelstein , Vladimir Pascalutsa

We extract the proton magnetic radius from the high-precision electron-proton elastic scattering cross section data. Our theoretical framework combines dispersion analysis and chiral effective field theory and implements the dynamics…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-30 J. M. Alarcón , D. W. Higinbotham , C. Weiss

To date the magnetic radius of the proton has been determined only by means of electron-proton scattering, which is not free of controversies. Any existing atomic determinations are irrelevant because they are strongly model-dependent. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-04 Savely G. Karshenboim

In two recent papers it is argued that the 'proton radius puzzle' can be explained by truncating the electron scattering data to low momentum transfer and fit the rms radius in the low momentum expansion of the form factor. It is shown that…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-11-03 Michael O. Distler , Thomas Walcher , Jan C. Bernauer

We propose a theoretical scenario to solve the proton radius puzzle which recently arises from the muonic hydrogen experiment. In this framework, 4 + n dimensional theory is incorporated with modified gravity. The extra gravitational…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-06-27 Li-Bang Wang , Wei-Tou Ni

The elastic electron-proton scattering data are analysed in order to determine proton charge and magnetic rms radii, r_E and r_M. Along with the usual statistical error, we try to estimate a systematic error in the radii, caused by the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Dmitry Borisyuk

Recently a high-precision measurement of the Lamb shift in muonic hydrogen has been performed. An accurate value of the proton charge radius can be extracted from this datum with a high accuracy. To do that a sufficient accuracy should be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-04 Savely G. Karshenboim

The rms-radius $R$ of the proton charge distribution is a fundamental quantity needed for precision physics. This radius, traditionally determined from elastic electron-proton scattering via the slope of the Sachs form factor $G_e(q^2)$…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-01-08 Ingo Sick

Determination of the proton charge radius by different methods has produced an inconsistency. The most precise value (from spectroscopy of muonic hydrogen) strongly disagrees with three less accurate values (from spectroscopy of ordinary…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-05 Savely G. Karshenboim

The charge radius of the proton is typically determined from electron-proton scattering by extracting the proton's electric form factor and then making use of the derivative of that form factor at zero four-momentum transfer. Unfortunately,…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-02-16 Benjamin Boone , Michael Chen , Kevin Sturm , Justin Yoo , Douglas Higinbotham

We have determined the proton and the neutron charge radii from a global analysis of the proton and the neutron elastic form factors, after first performing a flavor decomposition of these form factors under charge symmetry in the light…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2021-02-24 H. Atac , M. Constantinou , Z. -E. Meziani , M. Paolone , N. Sparveris

The proton is a fundamental constituent of matter. It is an extended object with finite size that can be inferred with some degree of accuracy from several measurements. Using constraints from the analytic behavior of the form factors we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-11-03 Joydeep Roy , Zachary Epstein , Gil Paz

The measurement by Pohl et al. [1] of the 2S_1/2^F=1 to 2P_3/2^F=2 transition in muonic hydrogen and the subsequent analysis has led to a conclusion that the rms charge radius of the proton differs from the accepted (CODATA [2]) value by…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 J. D. Carroll , A. W. Thomas , J. Rafelski , G. A. Miller

We present a dispersion theoretical analysis of the experimental data on the electromagnetic form factors of the nucleon covering both the space- and time-like regions. The nucleon form factors over the full range of momentum transfers and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-18 Yong-Hui Lin

In this paper, we apply the Maximum Entropy Method to estimate the proton radius and determine the valence quark distributions in the proton at extremely low resolution scale Q$^{2}_{0}$. Using the simplest functional form of the valence…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-09-04 Chengdong Han , Xurong Chen