Search for Effects Beyond the Born Approximation in Polarization Transfer Observables in (e)over-right-arrow p Elastic Scattering

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作者
Meziane, M. [1 ]
Brash, E. J. [2 ,3 ]
Gilman, R. [3 ,4 ]
Jones, M. K. [3 ]
Luo, W. [5 ]
Pentchev, L. [1 ]
Perdrisat, C. F. [1 ]
Puckett, A. J. R. [6 ,7 ]
Punjabi, V. [8 ]
Wesselmann, F. R. [8 ]
Ahmidouch, A. [9 ]
Albayrak, I. [10 ]
Aniol, K. A. [11 ]
Arrington, J. [12 ]
Asaturyan, A. [13 ]
Ates, O. [10 ]
Baghdasaryan, H. [14 ]
Benmokhtar, F. [15 ]
Bertozzi, W. [6 ]
Bimbot, L. [16 ,17 ]
Bosted, P. [3 ]
Boeglin, W. [18 ]
Butuceanu, C. [19 ]
Carter, P. [2 ]
Chernenko, S. [20 ]
Christy, E. [10 ]
Commisso, M. [14 ]
Cornejo, J. C. [11 ]
Covrig, S. [3 ]
Danagoulian, S. [9 ]
Daniel, A. [21 ]
Davidenko, A. [22 ]
Day, D. [14 ]
Dhamija, S. [18 ]
Dutta, D. [23 ]
Ent, R. [3 ]
Frullani, S. [24 ,25 ]
Fenker, H. [3 ]
Frlez, E. [14 ]
Garibaldi, F. [24 ,25 ]
Gaskell, D. [3 ]
Gilad, S. [6 ]
Goncharenko, Y. [22 ]
Hafidi, K. [12 ]
Hamilton, D. [26 ]
Higinbotham, D. W. [3 ]
Hinton, W. [8 ]
Horn, T. [3 ]
Hu, B. [5 ]
Huang, J. [6 ]
机构
[1] Coll William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA 23187 USA
[2] Christopher Newport Univ, Newport News, VA 23606 USA
[3] Thomas Jefferson Natl Accelerator Facil, Newport News, VA 23606 USA
[4] Rutgers State Univ, Piscataway, NJ 08855 USA
[5] Lanzhou Univ, Lanzhou 730000, Gansu, Peoples R China
[6] MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[7] Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA
[8] Norfolk State Univ, Norfolk, VA 23504 USA
[9] N Carolina Agr & Tech State Univ, Greensboro, NC 27411 USA
[10] Hampton Univ, Hampton, VA 23668 USA
[11] Calif State Univ Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90032 USA
[12] Argonne Natl Lab, Argonne, IL 60439 USA
[13] Yerevan Phys Inst, Yerevan 375036, Armenia
[14] Univ Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904 USA
[15] Carnegie Mellon Univ, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA
[16] CNRS, Inst Phys Nucl, IN2P3, F-91405 Orsay, France
[17] Univ Paris 11, Orsay, France
[18] Florida Int Univ, Miami, FL 33199 USA
[19] Univ Regina, Regina, SK S4S 0A2, Canada
[20] JINR LHE, Dubna 141980, Moscow Region, Russia
[21] Ohio Univ, Athens, OH 45701 USA
[22] IHEP, Protvino 142284, Moscow Region, Russia
[23] Mississippi State Univ, Starkville, MS 39762 USA
[24] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Sanita, I-00161 Rome, Italy
[25] Ist Super Sanita, I-00161 Rome, Italy
[26] Univ Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Lanark, Scotland
[27] Seoul Natl Univ, Seoul 151742, South Korea
[28] Univ Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
[29] Univ Maryland, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
[30] Univ Chem Technol & Met, BU-1756 Sofia, Bulgaria
[31] Tel Aviv Univ, IL-69978 Tel Aviv, Israel
[32] Jozef Stefan Inst, SI-1001 Ljubljana, Slovenia
[33] CEA Saclay, F-91191 Gif Sur Yvette, France
[34] Johannes Gutenberg Univ Mainz, Inst Kernphys, D-55099 Mainz, Germany
基金
加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会; 美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
FORM-FACTOR MEASUREMENTS; PROTON;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.132501
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
Intensive theoretical and experimental efforts over the past decade have aimed at explaining the discrepancy between data for the proton electric to magnetic form factor ratio, G(E)/G(M), obtained separately from cross section and polarization transfer measurements. One possible explanation for this difference is a two-photon-exchange contribution. In an effort to search for effects beyond the one-photon-exchange or Born approximation, we report measurements of polarization transfer observables in the elastic H((e) over right arrow, e' (p) over right arrow) reaction for three different beam energies at a Q(2) = 2: 5 GeV2, spanning a wide range of the kinematic parameter epsilon. The ratio R, which equals mu(p)G(E)/G(M) in the Born approximation, is found to be independent of epsilon at the 1.5% level. The epsilon dependence of the longitudinal polarization transfer component P-l shows an enhancement of (2.3 +/- 0.6)% relative to the Born approximation at large epsilon
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