Defining the proton radius: A unified treatment
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DOI: 10.1103/physrevc.99.035202
Abstract: Background: There is significant current interest in knowing the value of the proton radius and also its proper definition. Purpose: Combine the disparate literatures of hydrogen spectroscopy and diverse modern parton distributions to show that… read more here.
Keywords: radius unified; spectroscopy; radius; proton radius ... See more keywords
Reexamining the proton-radius problem using constrained Gaussian processes
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DOI: 10.1103/physrevc.99.055202
Abstract: Background: The ``proton radius puzzle'' refers to an 8-year-old problem that highlights major inconsistencies in the extraction of the charge radius of the proton from muonic Lamb-shift experiments as compared against experiments using elastic electron… read more here.
Keywords: momentum transfer; form factor; proton; constrained gaussian ... See more keywords