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arxiv: 1402.3054 · v1 · pith:WC35ZHNMnew · submitted 2014-02-13 · ✦ hep-ph · nucl-th· physics.atom-ph

Coulomb corrections to electron scattering on the extended source and the proton charge radius

classification ✦ hep-ph nucl-thphysics.atom-ph
keywords mathrmchargeelectronprotonscatteringalphacorrectionscoulomb
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It is shown that the account for the proton charge form factor in the Coulomb corrections to the electron-proton scattering cross section noticeably diminishes the difference between the value of the proton charge radius $r_{\mathrm{E}}$, extracted from the $ep$ scattering data, and that following from the muonic hydrogen data. For the electron energy much higher than the electron mass but much smaller than $r_{\mathrm{E}}^{-1}\approx 230$~MeV, the relative correction has the universal form $\delta r_{\mathrm{E}}/r_{\mathrm{E}}=-\pi\alpha/2$, where $\alpha$ is the fine structure constant.

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