Published September 2007 | Version v1
Journal article

Precise determination of low-Q nucleon electromagnetic form factors and their impact on parity-violating e-p elastic scattering

  • 1. Department fuer Physik und Astronomie, Universitaet Basel, Basel (Switzerland)
  • 2. Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois (United States)

Description

The extraction of the strangeness form factors from parity-violating elastic electron-proton scattering is sensitive to the electromagnetic form factors at low Q2. We provide parametrizations for the form factors and uncertainties, including the effects of two-photon exchange corrections to the extracted electromagnetic form factors. We study effect of the correlations between different form factors, in particular as they impact the parity-violating asymmetry and the extraction of the strangeness form factors. We provide a prescription to extract the strangeness form factors from the asymmetry that provides an excellent approximation of the full two-photon correction. The corrected form factors are also appropriate as input for other low-Q analyses, although the effects of correlations and two-photon exchange corrections may be different

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. C, Nuclear Physics
Journal Volume
76
Journal Issue
3
Journal Page Range
p. 035201-035201.9
ISSN
0556-2813
CODEN
PRVCAN

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(c) 2007 The American Physical Society