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Laboratory for Particle Physics (LTP)


LTP Colloquium

Proton Radii from Electron-Proton Scattering

Thursday, May 26, 2011, 16:00
OSGA/E6

I. Sick, University of Basel

Abstract:
We discuss the extraction of the proton rms-radii and Zemach moments from the world-data on electron-proton scattering. The resulting proton charge radius shows a pronounced discrepancy with the result obtained from the PSI data for muonic Hydrogen. We also address the shortcomings of the standard determinations of the charge radius, and show how a more reliable value can be obtained using information on the tail of the proton density at large radii.