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Evidence for two-photon exchange contributions in electron-proton and positron-proton elastic scattering

J. Arrington

  • Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA

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Phys. Rev. C 69, 032201(R) – Published 1 March, 2004

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.69.032201

Abstract

The comparison of positron-proton and electron-proton elastic scattering cross sections is a sensitive test for the presence of two-photon exchange contributions. Thirty years ago, positron data were considered adequate to set tight limits on the size of two-photon corrections. More recently, these radiative corrections have again become a matter of great interest as a possible explanation for the discrepancy between Rosenbluth and polarization transfer measurements of the proton electromagnetic form factors. We have reexamined the electron and positron scattering data to see if they can accommodate two-photon effects of the size necessary to account for the Rosenbluth-polarization transfer discrepancy. The data are consistent with simple estimates of the two-photon contributions necessary to explain the discrepancy. In fact, they strongly favor a large ε-dependent correction to the positron to electron ratio, providing the first direct experimental evidence for a two-photon contribution to unpolarized lepton-proton scattering.

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Phys. Rev. C 69, 032201(R)– Published 1 March, 2004
  • Received 21 November 2003

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