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[Background] The proton charge radius extracted from recent muonic hydrogen Lamb shift measurements is significantly smaller than that extracted from atomic hydrogen and electron scattering measurements. [Purpose] In an attempt to…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2016-06-08 Douglas W. Higinbotham , Al Amin Kabir , Vincent Lin , David Meekins , Blaine Norum , Brad Sawatzky

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

We combine constraints from analyticity with experimental electron-proton scattering data to determine the proton magnetic radius without model-dependent assumptions on the shape of the form factor. We also study the impact of including…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-10-29 Zachary Epstein , Gil Paz , Joydeep Roy

The proton radius puzzle has motivated several new experiments that aim to extract the proton charge radius and resolve the puzzle. Recently PRad, a new electron-proton scattering experiment at Jefferson Lab, reported a proton charge radius…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-22 Gil Paz

We determine the charge radius of the proton by analyzing the published low momentum transfer electron-proton scattering data from Mainz. We note that polynomial expansions of the form factor converge for momentum transfers squared below…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2016-06-28 Keith Griffioen , Carl Carlson , Sarah Maddox

We analyze the recent electron-proton scattering data from Mainz using a dispersive framework that respects the constraints from analyticity and unitarity on the nucleon structure. We also perform a continued fraction analysis of these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-11-07 I. T. Lorenz , H. -W. Hammer , Ulf-G. Meißner

We examined several low-$Q^2$ elastic $ep$ and $ed$ scattering data sets using various models to extract the proton and deuteron rms radii and developed a comprehensive algorithm for estimating the systematic bias of each extracted radius.…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-01-04 Timothy B. Hayward , Keith A. Griffioen

A detailed examination of issues associated with proton radius extractions from elastic electron-proton scattering experiments is presented. Sources of systematic uncertainty and model dependence in the extractions are discussed, with an…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-06-03 John Arrington

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 proton radius puzzle is known as the discrepancy of the proton radius, obtained from muonic hydrogen spectroscopy (obtained as being roughly equal to 0.84fm), and the proton radius obtained from (ordinary) hydrogen spectroscopy where a…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-04-14 Ulrich D. Jentschura

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

Several recent publications claim that the proton charge {\em rms}-radius resulting from the analysis of electron scattering data restricted to {\em low} momentum transfer agrees with the radius determined from muonic hydrogen, in contrast…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2017-02-01 Ingo Sick , Dirk Trautmann

Background: There is significant current interest in knowing the value of the proton radius and also its proper definition. Purpose: Combine the disparate literatures of hydrogen spectroscopy and diverse modern parton distributions to show…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-03-13 Gerald A. Miller

The "proton radius puzzle" was recently solved by reducing the four-standard deviation discrepancy between the results for electronic hydrogen ($H$) and muonic hydrogen ($\mu H$) atoms to $3.3$ value. The value of the root-mean-square…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-03-30 D. Solovyev , T. Zalialiutdinov , A. Anikin

In this work, the cross-section of the reaction $\gamma p \rightarrow V(J/\psi,\psi(2S)) p$ from the production threshold to medium energy is studied and systematically analyzed within two gluon exchange model. The obtained numerical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-20 Xiao-Yun Wang , Fancong Zeng , Quanjin Wang

This note is motivated by preparations of a new $ep$ elastic scattering experiment in the low transfer momentum region to be carried out in the 720 MeV electron beam of the Mainz Microtron MAMI. This experiment will use an innovative method…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-03-20 S. Belostotski , N. Sagidova , A. Vorobyev

Conceptually, radii are amongst the simplest Poincar\'e-invariant properties that can be associated with hadrons and light nuclei. Accurate values of these quantities are necessary so that one may judge the character of putative solutions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-07 Zhu-Fang Cui , Daniele Binosi , Craig D. Roberts , Sebastian M. Schmidt

Recently, the charge radius of the proton was extracted for the first time from muonic hydrogen. The value obtained is five standard deviations away from similar measurements of regular hydrogen. This talk discusses work done in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-30 Gil Paz

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