New Prediction of the Positron-Proton to Electron-Proton Elastic Scattering Ratio from ep Elastic Scattering Data
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I present a new extraction of the positron-proton to electron-proton elastic scattering cross sections ratio . Contrary to several previous phenomenological studies and extractions, which predicted the ratio using model-independent parametrization of , the hard two-photon exchange (TPE) correction to the electron-proton (ep) elastic scattering cross section , I do not assume prior knowledge of the functional form of , but rather I use combined unpolarized, and polarized ep elastic scattering experimental data to extract the TPE contributions to , and provide a simple parametrization of along with the uncertainties associated with the model dependence of the extractions. I use the new parametrization of to predict the ratio , and then compare my extractions of to several previous phenomenological extractions, TPE-hadronic calculations, and world data emphasizing mainly the kinematics range of the recent precise direct measurements from the OLYMPUS, VEPP-3, and CLAS experiments.References(35)
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