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Measurements of the electric and magnetic form factors of the proton from Q2=1.75 to 8.83 (GeV/c)2
Physical Review D (1994)
  • L Andivahis
  • R S Hicks, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
  • R A Miskimen, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
  • Gerald Alvin Peterson, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
  • S Rokni, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Abstract

The proton elastic form factors GEp(Q2) and GMp(Q2) have been extracted for Q2=1.75 to 8.83 (GeV/c)2 via a Rosenbluth separation to ep elastic cross section measurements in the angular range 13°≤θ≤90°. The Q2 range covered more than doubles that of the existing data. For Q2<4 >(GeV/c)2, where the data overlap with previous measurements, the total uncertainties have been reduced to < 14% in GEp and < 1.5% in GMp. Results for GEp(Q2) are consistent with the dipole fit GD(Q2)=(1+Q2/0.71)-2, while those for GMp(Q2)/μpGD(Q2) decrease smoothly from 1.05 to 0.92. Deviations from form factor scaling are observed up to 20%. The ratio Q2F2/F1 is observed to approach a constant value for Q2>3 (GeV/c)2. Comparisons are made to vector meson dominance, dimensional scaling, QCD sum rule, diquark, and constituent quark models, none of which fully characterize all the new data.

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Publication Date
November 1, 1994
Publisher Statement
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevD.50.5491 Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0 (cc-BY)
Citation Information
L Andivahis, R S Hicks, R A Miskimen, Gerald Alvin Peterson, et al.. "Measurements of the electric and magnetic form factors of the proton from Q2=1.75 to 8.83 (GeV/c)2" Physical Review D Vol. 50 Iss. 9 (1994)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/gerald_peterson/18/