Proton Size Anomaly

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作者
Barger, Vernon [1 ]
Chiang, Cheng-Wei [1 ,2 ,3 ,4 ]
Keung, Wai-Yee [5 ]
Marfatia, Danny [1 ,6 ]
机构
[1] Univ Wisconsin, Dept Phys, Madison, WI 53706 USA
[2] Natl Cent Univ, Ctr Math & Theoret Phys, Chungli 32001, Taiwan
[3] Natl Cent Univ, Dept Phys, Chungli 32001, Taiwan
[4] Acad Sinica, Inst Phys, Taipei 11925, Taiwan
[5] Univ Illinois, Dept Phys, Chicago, IL 60607 USA
[6] Univ Kansas, Dept Phys & Astron, Lawrence, KS 66045 USA
关键词
HADRON DECAY PROCESSES; ELECTRIC POLARIZABILITY; MUONIC HYDROGEN; GAUGE BOSON; QUARK-MODEL; NEUTRON; SEARCH; SCATTERING; CONSTANTS; ATOMS;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.153001
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
A measurement of the Lamb shift in muonic hydrogen yields a charge radius of the proton that is smaller than the CODATA value by about 5 standard deviations. We explore the possibility that new scalar, pseudoscalar, vector, and tensor flavor-conserving nonuniversal interactions may be responsible for the discrepancy. We consider exotic particles that, among leptons, couple preferentially to muons and mediate an attractive nucleon-muon interaction. We find that the many constraints from low energy data disfavor new spin-0, spin-1, and spin-2 particles as an explanation.
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