Partonic calculation of the two-photon exchange contribution to elastic electron-proton scattering at large momentum transfer

We estimate the two-photon exchange contribution to elastic electron-proton scattering at large momentum transfer through the scattering off a parton in the proton. We relate the two-photon exchange amplitude to the generalized parton distributions which appear in hard exclusive processes. We find that when taking the polarization transfer determinations of the form factors as input, adding in the 2-photon correction does reproduce the Rosenbluth cross sections.     

Measurement of tensor polarization in elastic electron-deuteron scattering at large momentum transfer

Tensor polarization observables ( t(20), t(21), and t(22)) have been measured in elastic electron-deuteron scattering for six values of momentum transfer between 0.66 and 1.7 (GeV/c)(2). The experiment was performed at the Jefferson Laboratory in Hall C using the electron High Momentum Spectrometer, a specially designed deuteron magnetic channel and the recoil deuteron polarimeter POLDER. The new data determine to much larger Q2 the deuteron charge form factors G(C) and G(Q). They are in good agreement with relativistic calculations and disagree with perturbative QCD predictions.     

Proton spin-spin asymmetries for large angle electron-proton elastic scattering

Using the proper-time technique we calculate the one-fermion-loop contributions in four and six derivatives to the effective Lagrangian for theSU(2)xSU(2) non-linear σ-model.     

Nucleon form factors for elastic electron-deuteron scattering at high momentum transfer

Elastic electron-deuteron scattering at high momentum transfer is investigated within the Bethe-Salpeter approach. The relativistic covariant Graz II separable kernel of nucleon-nucleon interactions is used to analyze the deuteron structure functions, form factors, and tensor of polarization components. The modern data for the electromagnetic structure of nucleons from the double polarization experiments, as well as some other models of the nucleon form factors, are considered.     

Two-photon exchange and elastic electron-proton scattering

Two-photon exchange contributions to elastic electron-proton scattering cross sections are evaluated in a simple hadronic model including the finite size of the proton. The corrections are found to be small in magnitude, but with a strong angular dependence at fixed Q2. This is significant for the Rosenbluth technique for determining the ratio of the electric and magnetic form factors of the proton at high Q2, and partly reconciles the apparent discrepancy with the results of the polarization transfer technique.     

Neutron scattering from superfluid 4He at very large momentum transfer

Measurements of inelastic neutron scattering from liquid ⁴He were performed at very large momentum transfer (about 150 Å⁻¹) using an eV spectrometer with a pulsed spallation neutron source. A difference in the scattered neutron spectrum measured at 1.2 and 2.5 K was observed for the first time within this momentum-transfer range.     

First results on low momentum transfer elastic scattering at the CERN proton-antiproton collider

Proton-antiproton elastic scattering at a centre-of-mass energy of 540 GeV was measured in the four-momentum transfer range 0.05 < ?t < s.19 GeV². The t-distribution can be fitted by the exponential exp(b) with b=17.2±1.0 GeV^?2. This result indicates a rapid decrease of the width of the diffraction peak between ISR and Collider energies.     

Two-photon-exchange correction to parity-violating elastic electron-proton scattering

Higher-order QED effects play an important role in precision measurements of nucleon elastic form factors in electron scattering. Here we introduce a two-photon-exchange QED correction to the parity-violating polarization asymmetry of elastic electron-proton scattering. We calculate this correction in the parton model using the formalism of generalized parton distributions, and demonstrate that it can reach several percent in certain kinematics, becoming comparable in size with existing experimental measurements of strange-quark effects in the proton neutral weak current.     

Model-independent determination of the hadron elastic scattering at high energy and small momentum transfer

It is shown that the measurement of the polarization together with the hadron elastic dN/dt distribution in the Coulomb-nuclear interference region allows to extract directly from the data both the real and imaginary parts of the spin non-flip nuclear amplitude, independently from each other and without any arbitrary theoretical assumption. The crucial parameter ρ = Re F/Im F will be therefore known as a function of t at fixed s and will allow us to detect new phenomena in hadron physics.     

Measurement of antiproton-proton small-angle elastic scattering at low momentum

Two high statistics measurements of antiproton-proton small-angle elastic scattering, at p = 233 MeV/c and p = 272 MeV/c, are presented. The measurements were carried out at the LEAR facility at CERN. By the Coulomb-nuclear interference method, values are obtained for the real-to-imaginary ratio ρ of the p̄p forward nuclear scattering amplitude and for its exponential slope b: ρ = + 0.041 ± 0.026 and b = 71.5 ± 4.5 (GeV/c)⁻² at 233 MeV/c and ρ = −0.014 ± 0.027 and b = 47.7 ± 2.7 (GeV/c)⁻² at 272 MeV/c. The method to derive these values is discussed in detail and so are the uncertainties contributing to their systematic error. The results are compared with predictions from forward dispersion relation calculations and with predictions from p̄p potential models.     

On radiative corrections for unpolarized electron-proton elastic scattering

A statistical analysis of the elastic unpolarized electron-proton scattering data shows that at large momentum transfer the size and the ε dependence of the radiative corrections, as traditionally calculated and applied, may induce large correlations of the parameters of the Rosenbluth fit, which prevent a correct extraction of the electric proton form factor. Using the electron QED structure (radiation) function approach, the cross section of elastic electron-proton scattering in leading and next-to-leading approximations is calculated and expressed as a correction to the Born cross section, which is different for the electric and magnetic contributions. When properly applied to the data, it may yield the solution to the problem of the discrepancy of the polarized and unpolarized results on electron-proton scattering. The text was submitted by the author in English.     

The elastic and inelastic scattering of intermediate energy protons on deuterium at small momentum transfer

The differential cross sections for the elastic and inelastic scattering of protons on deuterium have been measured for scattering angles less than 14° at 198.5, 297.6 and 456.6 MeV. These quantities were determined relative to dσ / dΩ for pp elastic scattering with a precision of typically 2%. The range of excitation energies for the (p, p') reaction was chosen to emphasize the region near the np threshold dominated by the final-state interaction in the ¹S₀ channel. Particular attention was given to the dependence on excitation energy of the spectra at 198.5 MeV to examine the sensitivity to the ¹S₀ scattering length, a_np In this paper all data are compared with a new, detailed formulation of a simple model of the reaction mechanism based on the impulse approximation. The experimental results differ from the predictions by typically 10% and the differential cross sections exhibit a sensitivity to the intermediate-energy nucleon-nucleon amplitudes. If the impulse approximation is used to estimate a_np from the data at 198.5 MeV a value of − 24.7 ± 0.4 fm is obtained.     

Model-independent properties of two-photon exchange in elastic electron-proton scattering

We derive from general symmetry properties of the hadron electromagnetic interaction, such as C-invariance and crossing symmetry, the general characteristics of two-photon exchange in electron-proton elastic scattering. We show that the presence of this mechanism destroys the linearity of the Rosenbluth separation.PACS: 25.30.Bf Elastic electron scattering - 13.40.-f Electromagnetic processes and properties - 13.60.-r Photon and charged-lepton interactions with hadrons - 13.88. + e Polarization in interactions and scattering     

On double polarization asymmetries in the elastic electron-proton scattering

Double polarization asymmetry D_p^(M) for the process of elastic electroweak scattering of the longitudinally polarized electrons by polarized proton target is considered with account of anapole G_1p and electric dipole moment (EDM) G_2p proton form factors. This asymmetry is only due to T-parity violating form factor G_2p, but does not directly depend on it, and having a significant value, allows to confirm the existence of the EDM of the proton.