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Precisely measured electron-proton elastic scattering cross sections [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 105}, 242002 (2010)] are reanalyzed to evaluate their strength for determining the rms charge radius ($R_{\rm E}$) of the proton. More than half of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2016-03-23 M. Horbatsch , E. A. Hessels

Constraints from analyticity are combined with experimental electron-proton scattering data to determine the proton charge radius. In contrast to previous determinations, we provide a systematic procedure for analyzing arbitrary data…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-24 Richard J. Hill , Gil Paz

A measurement of the Lamb shift of 49,881.88(76) GHz in muonic hydrogen in conjunction with theoretical estimates of the proton structure effects was recently used to deduce an accurate but rather small radius of the proton. Such an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-04 N. G. Kelkar , F. Garcia Daza , M. Nowakowski

The standard procedure of extracting the proton root-mean-square radii from models for the Sachs form factors $G_e (q)$ and $G_m (q)$ fitted to elastic electron-proton scattering data %has a serious flaw. is more uncertain than…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-06-22 Ingo Sick , Dirk Trautmann

It is suggested that proton elastic scattering on atomic electrons allows a precise measurement of the proton charge radius. Very small values of transferred momenta (up to four order of magnitude smaller than the ones presently available)…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 G. I. Gakh , A. Dbeyssi , E. Tomasi-Gustafsson , D. Marchand , V. V. Bytev

Systematic differences in the the proton's charge radius, as determined by ordinary atoms and muonic atoms, have caused a resurgence of interest in elastic lepton scattering measurements. The proton's charge radius, defined as the slope of…

A phenomenological extraction of pressure within the proton has recently been performed using JLab CLAS data (arXiv:2104.02031 [nucl-ex]). The extraction used a 3-dimensional Breit frame description in which the initial and final proton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-04 Adam Freese , Gerald A. Miller

The extremely precise extraction of the proton radius by Pohl et al. from the measured energy difference between the 2P and 2S states of muonic hydrogen disagrees significantly with that extracted from electronic hydrogen or elastic…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-06-03 Randolf Pohl , Ronald Gilman , Gerald A. Miller , Krzysztof Pachucki

The study of protons, fundamental constituents of atomic nuclei, is crucial for understanding nuclear physics and fundamental forces. This review examines advancements in extracting electromagnetic form factors, essential for probing proton…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-02-25 Gerome A. Paterez , Jade C. Jusoy , Edmar Pantohan , Eulogio Auxtero

We present an analysis of the proton mass radius by studying the $t$-dependence of the differential cross sections of the vector meson photoproductions near the thresholds. At low energy, the photoproduction of a quarkonium off the proton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-19 Rong Wang , Wei Kou , Ya-Ping Xie , Xurong Chen

The proton charge radius inferred from muonic hydrogen spectroscopy is not compatible with the previous value given by CODATA-2010, which, on its turn, essentially relies on measurements of the electron-proton interaction. The proton's new…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-24 F. Dahia , A. S. Lemos

The current status of the determination of corrections to the hyperfine splitting of the ground state in hydrogen is considered. Improved calculations are provided taking into account the most recent value for the proton charge radius.…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. V. Volotka , V. M. Shabaev , G. Plunien , G. Soff

Recent results on muonic hydrogen [1] and the ones compiled by CODATA on ordinary hydrogen and $ep$-scattering [2] are $5\sigma$ away from each other. Two reasons justify a further look at this subject: 1) One of the approximations used in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-17 A. De Rújula

The work is devoted to a consideration of the different determinations of the proton charge radius. It is demonstrated that the results from the elastic electron-proton scattering have to be of a higher uncertainty. A review of the hydrogen…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 Savely G. Karshenboim

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 2016-06-28 T. W. Donnelly , D. K. Hasell , R. G. Milner

The electric and magnetic bag radiuses of the proton can be determined by MIT bag model based on electric and magnetic form factors of the proton. Also we determined electric and magnetic root mean squared radiuses of the proton, using of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-01-21 Maryam Momeni Feili , Mahvash Zandi

The question of the determination of the proton charge radius $R_p$ from electron scattering data led to an unprecedented experimental effort for measurements of the electric form factor of the proton at low and very low momentum transfer…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-09-04 M. Hoballah , S. Cholak , R. Kunne , C. Le Galliard , D. Marchand , G. Quéméner , E. Voutier , J. van de Wiele

Recent measurements of the Lamb shift of muonic helium-4 ions were used to infer the alpha particle charge radius. The value found is compatible with the radius extracted from the analysis of the electron-helium scattering. Thus, the new…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-06 F. Dahia , A. S. Lemos

We reanalyze electron-proton scattering data in the momentum transfer region $Q^2 < 1\ GeV^2$, which were used to determine proton electric radius, with main focus on the Mainz experiment (Bernauer et al., 2010). We examine dependence of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-26 Dmitry Borisyuk , Alexander Kobushkin

A slight anomaly in optical spectra of the hydrogen atom led Willis E. Lamb to the search for the proton size. As a result, he found the shift of the 2S1/2 level, the first experimental demonstration of quantum electrodynamics. In return, a…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2021-04-01 Istvan Angeli