Published 2007 | Version v1
Journal article

Two-photon physics

  • 1. Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, VA (United States)
  • 2. Department of Physics, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA (United States)

Description

A brief discussion is given on the status of two-photon exchange contributions to elastic electron-nucleon scattering. The apparent discrepancy in the extraction of elastic nucleon form factors between unpolarized Rosenbluth and polarization transfer experiments is discussed, as well as the understanding of this puzzle in terms of two-photon exchange corrections. It is also discussed how the imaginary part of the two-photon exchange amplitude can be accessed from the beam normal spin asymmetry in elastic electron-nucleon scattering. (author)

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Few-Body Systems
Journal Volume
41
Journal Issue
1-2
Journal Page Range
p. 103-115
ISSN
0177-7963
CODEN
FBSYEQ