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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 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 charge radius of the proton can be determined using two different kinds of experiments: the spectroscopy technique, measuring the hyperfine structure of hydrogen atoms, and the scattering technique, deducing the radius from elastic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-10-03 M. Atoui , M. B. Barbaro , M. Hoballah , C. Keyrouz , R. Kunne , M. Lassaut , D. Marchand , G. Quemener , E. Voutier

A possible explanation for the discrepancy between electronic and muonic hydrogen measurements of the proton charge radius are new, lepton-universality violating interactions. Several new couplings and particles have been suggested that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-02-12 Carl E. Carlson , Benjamin C. Rislow

The relationship between the electric form factors for the proton in the rest frame and in the Breit momentum frame is used to provide a value for the difference in the mean squared charge radius of the proton evaluated in the two frames.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-01-28 D. Robson

We comment on the puzzling status of the proton magnetic radius determinations.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-07 Yong-Hui Lin , Hans-Werner Hammer , Ulf-G. Meißner

Pohl et al. measured the energy difference between the 2P and 2S states of muonic hydrogen and used it to determine a precise value of the proton radius. The result disagreed significantly from values extracted from electronic hydrogen and…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2026-04-28 Gerald A. Miller

We study the world data on elastic electron-proton scattering in order to determine the proton charge rms-radius. After accounting for the Coulomb distortion and using a parameterization that allows to deal properly with the higher moments…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Ingo Sick

We argue that the proton charge radius conundrum can be resolved by weakening the assumption of perturbative formulation of quantum electrodynamics within the proton

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-06-24 Krzysztof Pachucki , Krzysztof A. Meissner

The "proton radius puzzle" is the 7-standard-deviations difference of the charge radius of the proton as determined from the Lamb shift in electronic hydrogen and elastic electron scattering off the proton on the one side and the high…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-04-17 Thomas Walcher

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

We comment on the status and history of the proton charge radius determinations.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-22 Hans-Werner Hammer , Ulf-G. Meißner

We present the first determination of the proton mechanical radius. The result was obtained by employing a novel theoretical approach that connects experimental data of deeply virtual Compton scattering with the spin = 2 interaction that is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-07 V. D. Burkert , L. Elouadrhiri , F. X. Girod

In light of the proton radius puzzle, the discrepancy between measurements of the proton charge radius from muonic hydrogen and those from electronic hydrogen and electron-proton scattering measurements, we reexamine the charge radius…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-05-12 John Arrington , Ingo Sick

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

In a series of recent publications, different authors produce a wide range of electron radii when reanalyzing electron proton scattering data. In the light of the proton radius puzzle, this is a most unfortunate situation. However, we find…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-06-08 Jan C. Bernauer , Michael O. Distler

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

Nucleons (protons and neutrons) are the building blocks of atomic nuclei, and are responsible for more than 99\% of the visible matter in the universe. Despite decades of efforts in studying its internal structure, there are still a number…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-02 Haiyan Gao , Marc Vanderhaeghen

The proton radius puzzle questions the self-consistency of theory and experiment in light muonic and electronic bound systems. Here, we summarize the current status of virtual particle models as well as Lorentz-violating models that have…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-07-29 U. D. Jentschura

Background: The "proton radius puzzle" refers to an eight-year old problem that highlights major inconsistencies in the extraction of the charge radius of the proton from muonic Lamb-shift experiments as compared against experiments using…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-05-22 Shuang Zhou , P. Giuliani , J. Piekarewicz , Anirban Bhattacharya , Debdeep Pati