Recoil Polarization Measurements of the Proton Electromagnetic Form Factor Ratio to Q2=8.5 GeV2

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作者
Puckett, A. J. R. [1 ]
Brash, E. J. [2 ,3 ]
Jones, M. K. [3 ]
Luo, W. [4 ]
Meziane, M. [5 ]
Pentchev, L. [5 ]
Perdrisat, C. F. [5 ]
Punjabi, V. [6 ]
Wesselmann, F. R. [6 ]
Ahmidouch, A. [7 ]
Albayrak, I. [8 ]
Aniol, K. A. [9 ]
Arrington, J. [10 ]
Asaturyan, A. [11 ]
Baghdasaryan, H. [12 ]
Benmokhtar, F. [13 ]
Bertozzi, W. [1 ]
Bimbot, L. [14 ,15 ]
Bosted, P. [3 ]
Boeglin, W. [16 ]
Butuceanu, C. [17 ]
Carter, P. [2 ]
Chernenko, S. [18 ]
Christy, E. [8 ]
Commisso, M. [12 ]
Cornejo, J. C. [9 ]
Covrig, S. [3 ]
Danagoulian, S. [7 ]
Daniel, A. [19 ]
Davidenko, A. [20 ]
Day, D. [12 ]
Dhamija, S. [16 ]
Dutta, D. [21 ]
Ent, R. [3 ]
Frullani, S. [22 ,23 ]
Fenker, H. [3 ]
Frlez, E. [12 ]
Garibaldi, F. [22 ,23 ]
Gaskell, D. [3 ]
Gilad, S. [1 ]
Gilman, R. [3 ,24 ]
Goncharenko, Y. [20 ]
Hafidi, K. [10 ]
Hamilton, D. [25 ]
Higinbotham, D. W. [3 ]
Hinton, W. [6 ]
Horn, T. [3 ]
Hu, B. [4 ]
Huang, J. [1 ]
Huber, G. M. [17 ]
机构
[1] MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[2] Christopher Newport Univ, Newport News, VA 23606 USA
[3] Thomas Jefferson Natl Accelerator Facil, Newport News, VA 23606 USA
[4] Lanzhou Univ, Lanzhou 730000, Gansu, Peoples R China
[5] Coll William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA 23187 USA
[6] Norfolk State Univ, Norfolk, VA 23504 USA
[7] N Carolina Agr & Tech State Univ, Greensboro, NC 27411 USA
[8] Hampton Univ, Hampton, VA 23668 USA
[9] Calif State Univ Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90032 USA
[10] Argonne Natl Lab, Argonne, IL 60439 USA
[11] Yerevan Phys Inst, Yerevan 375036, Armenia
[12] Univ Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904 USA
[13] Carnegie Mellon Univ, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA
[14] CNRS IN2P3, Inst Phys Nucl, Orsay, France
[15] Univ Paris 11, Orsay, France
[16] Florida Int Univ, Miami, FL 33199 USA
[17] Univ Regina, Regina, SK S4S OA2, Canada
[18] JINR LHE, Dubna 141980, Moscow Region, Russia
[19] Ohio Univ, Athens, OH 45701 USA
[20] IHEP, Protvino 142284, Moscow Region, Russia
[21] Mississippi State Univ, Starkville, MS 39762 USA
[22] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Sanita, I-00161 Rome, Italy
[23] Ist Super Sanita, I-00161 Rome, Italy
[24] Rutgers State Univ, Piscataway, NJ 08855 USA
[25] Univ Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Lanark, Scotland
[26] Univ Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
[27] Univ Maryland, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
[28] Univ Chem Technol & Met, BU-1756 Sofia, Bulgaria
[29] Tel Aviv Univ, IL-69978 Tel Aviv, Israel
[30] Univ Ljubljana, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
[31] SPhN, DSM, IRFU, F-91191 Gif Sur Yvette, France
基金
美国国家科学基金会; 加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会;
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.242301
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
Among the most fundamental observables of nucleon structure, electromagnetic form factors are a crucial benchmark for modern calculations describing the strong interaction dynamics of the nucleon's quark constituents; indeed, recent proton data have attracted intense theoretical interest. In this Letter, we report new measurements of the proton electromagnetic form factor ratio using the recoil polarization method, at momentum transfers Q(2) = 5.2, 6.7, and 8.5 GeV2. By extending the range of Q(2) for which G(E)(P) is accurately determined by more than 50%, these measurements will provide significant constraints on models of nucleon structure in the nonperturbative regime.
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