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The Mainz high-precision proton form factor measurement

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Abstract

An extensive measurement of the elastic H(e,e')p reaction in the Q 2-region from 0.003 to 1 (GeV/c)2 has been performed with the 3-spectrometer-setup of the A1 collaboration at the Mainz Microtron. The dataset consists of about 3000 overlapping cross section measurements with a high level of internal redundancy. The large number of precisely measured cross sections allow for a determination of the electric and magnetic form factors with strict control over statistical and systematic errors, in particular also of the charge and magnetization radii of the proton. Besides the classical Rosenbluth separation, the form factors are separated by direct, global fits of different sufficiently flexible models.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationHadron 2009 - Proceedings of the XIII International Conference on Hadron Spectroscopy
Pages641-645
Number of pages5
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010
Event13th International Conference on Hadron Spectroscopy, Hadron 2009 - Tallahassee, FL, United States
Duration: Nov 29 2009Dec 4 2009

Publication series

NameAIP Conference Proceedings
Volume1257
ISSN (Print)0094-243X
ISSN (Electronic)1551-7616

Conference

Conference13th International Conference on Hadron Spectroscopy, Hadron 2009
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityTallahassee, FL
Period11/29/0912/4/09

Keywords

  • Electric and magnetic form factors
  • MAMI
  • Proton radius

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