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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

The recent values of the proton charge radius obtained by means of muonic-hydrogen laser spectroscopy are about $4\%$ different from the electron scattering data. It has been suggested that the proton radius is actually measured in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-11-05 M. M. Giannini , E. Santopinto

A discrepancy in the determination of the proton's charge radius, $r_p$, between muonic hydrogen spectroscopy versus classic atomic spectroscopy and electron scattering data has become known as the proton radius puzzle. Extractions of $r_p$…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-12-06 Tyler J. Hague , Douglas W. Higinbotham , Spencer Portuese

Static properties of hadrons such as their radii and other moments of the electric and magnetic distributions can only be extracted using theoretical methods and not directly measured from experiments. As a result, discrepancies between the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-16 N. G. Kelkar , T. Mart , M. Nowakowski

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

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

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

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

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

The precise determination of the proton radius from recent elastic scattering electron-proton data is discussed. The necessary precision on the elastic cross section to discriminate among the values coming from atomic spectroscopy is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-12-12 Simone Pacetti , Egle Tomasi-Gustafsson

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

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

Using dispersion theory with an improved description of the two-pion continuum based on the precise Roy-Steiner analysis of pion-nucleon scattering, we analyze recent data from electron-proton scattering. This allows for a high-precision…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-01 Yong-Hui Lin , Hans-Werner Hammer , Ulf-G. Meißner

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

Recent values of the proton charge radius derived from the Lamb shift in electronic hydrogen tend to be larger than those from electron scattering. Therefore low-momentum-transfer scattering data from different groups and laboratories have…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 R. Rosenfelder

With the aim of extracting the pion charge radius, we analyse extant precise pion+electron elastic scattering data on $Q^2 \in [0.015,0.144]\,$GeV$^2$ using a method based on interpolation via continued fractions augmented by statistical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-17 Zhu-Fang Cui , Daniele Binosi , Craig D. Roberts , Sebastian M. Schmidt

Recently published data on the Sachs electric form factor by the PRad collaboration (Nature {\bf 575}, 147-151) are analyzed to investigate their consistency with the known proton charge radius from muonic and electronic hydrogen…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2020-04-22 Marko Horbatsch

By combining the constraints of charge symmetry with new chiral extrapolation techniques and recent low-mass quenched lattice QCD simulations of the individual quark contributions to the electric charge radii of the baryon octet, we obtain…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2010-02-17 D. B. Leinweber , S. Boinepalli , A. W. Thomas , P. Wang , A. G. Williams , R. D. Young , J. M. Zanotti , J. B. Zhang

[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