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Phys. Rev. C 76, 035205 (2007) [11 pages]

Global analysis of proton elastic form factor data with two-photon exchange corrections

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J. Arrington
Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA

W. Melnitchouk
Jefferson Lab, Newport News, Virginia 23606, USA

J. A. Tjon
Physics Department, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands

Received 24 July 2007; published 26 September 2007

We use the world's data on elastic electron-proton scattering and calculations of two-photon exchange effects to extract corrected values of the proton's electric and magnetic form factors over the full Q2 range of the existing data. Our analysis combines the corrected Rosenbluth cross section and polarization transfer data, and is the first extraction of GE and GM including explicit two-photon exchange corrections and their associated uncertainties. In addition, we examine the angular dependence of the corrected cross sections to examine the possible nonlinearities of the cross section as a function of ɛ.

© 2007 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevC.76.035205
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevC.76.035205
PACS:
25.30.Bf, 13.40.Gp, 14.20.Dh