[Theory-seminars] Theory Seminar, Wed., April 20, 2:00 p.m., L102

[Mary Fox]

Theory Center Seminar
Wed., April 20, 2016
CEBAF Center L102
2:00 p.m. (coffee at 1:45 p.m.)

Oleksandr Tomalak
University of Mainz

*Two-Photon Exchange Corrections in Elastic Lepton-Proton Interaction*

In recent years, elastic electron-proton scattering experiments, with and without polarized protons, gave strikingly different results for the
electric over magnetic proton form factor ratio. A mysterious discrepancy ("the proton radius puzzle") has been observed in the
measurement of the proton charge radius in muon spectroscopy experiments versus electron spectroscopy and electron scattering. Two-photon
exchange (TPE) contributions are the largest source of the hadronic uncertainty in these experiments. We estimate the forward Compton
scattering subtraction function and corresponding correction to the Lamb shift of 2S level in muonic hydrogen from the proton structure function
data in high-energy and resonance regions. We also compare the existing models of the elastic contribution to TPE correction in lepton-proton
scattering. A subtracted dispersion relation formalism for the TPE in electron-proton scattering has been developed and  tested. Its relative effect
on cross section is in the 1-2 % range for a low value of the momentum transfer. For the inelastic TPE contribution, the low momentum transfer
expansion was studied, and a good agreement with the experimental TPE fit to electron data was found. Predictions are also given for a forthcoming
muon-proton scattering experiment (MUSE).

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