The Proton Radius Current Measurements and New Ideas (but mostly MUSE….)
Guy Ron Hebrew University of Jerusalem
University of Washington 11 Jan., 2018 http://www.phys.huji.ac.il/~gron Outline
• How to measure the proton size.
• Evolution of measurements.
• Recent results and the “proton size crisis”.
• (Some) attempts at resolutions.
• Looking forward. How to measure the proton size
Bernauer et al., PRL105, 242001 (2010)
Chambers and Hofstadter, Zhan et al., PLB705, 59 (2011) Phys Rev 103, 14 (1956) Ron et al., PRC84, 055204 (2011)
Hofstadter @ Stanford: 1950s - Hadronic physicists all over: electron scattering 1960s-2010s - Form factors
Atomic physicists - precise atomic transitions in Pohl et al., Nature 466, 213 hydrogen (2010) How to measure the proton size
Question: Why should hadronic physicists care about what atomic physicists are measuring? Bernauer et al., PRL105, 242001 (2010)
Chambers and Hofstadter, Zhan et al., PLB705, 59 (2011) Phys Rev 103, 14 (1956) Ron et al., PRC84, 055204 (2011) Answer: Hofstadter @ Stanford: 1950s - Hadronic physicists all over: electron scatteringBecause sometimes they can measure1960s-2010s - Form factors things in NP more precisely than we can!
Atomic physicists - precise atomic transitions in Pohl et al., Nature 466, 213 hydrogen (2010) Scattering Measurements ELECTRON SCATTERING CROSS-SECTION (1-γ) d ↵2 E 2 cot2 ✓e R = 0 2 Rutherford - Point-Like d⌦ Q2 E 1+⌧ ✓ ◆
2 1 Q ✓ e ⌧ = , " = 1 + 2(1 + ⌧) tan2 e e' 4M 2 2
γ*
N N' ELECTRON SCATTERING CROSS-SECTION (1-γ) d ↵2 E 2 cot2 ✓e R = 0 2 Rutherford - Point-Like d⌦ Q2 E 1+⌧ ✓ ◆ d M d R ✓ = 1+2⌧ tan2 Mott - Spin-1/2 d⌦ d⌦ ⇥ 2
2 1 Q ✓ e ⌧ = , " = 1 + 2(1 + ⌧) tan2 e e' 4M 2 2
γ*
N N' ELECTRON SCATTERING CROSS-SECTION (1-γ) d ↵2 E 2 cot2 ✓e R = 0 2 Rutherford - Point-Like d⌦ Q2 E 1+⌧ ✓ ◆ d M d R ✓ = 1+2⌧ tan2 Mott - Spin-1/2 d⌦ d⌦ ⇥ 2 d d ⌧ Rosenbluth - Str = M G2 (Q2)+ G2 (Q2) d⌦ d⌦ ⇥ E " M Spin-1/2 with h i Structure 2 1 Q ✓ e ⌧ = , " = 1 + 2(1 + ⌧) tan2 e e' 4M 2 2 Gp (0) = 1 Gn (0) = 0 E E γ* Gp =2.793 Gn = 1.91 M M Sometimes GE = F1 ⌧F2 N N' written using: GM = F 1+F2 ELECTRON SCATTERING CROSS-SECTION (1-γ) d ↵2 E 2 cot2 ✓e R = 0 2 Rutherford - Point-Like d⌦ Q2 E 1+⌧ Everything we don’t ✓ ◆ d M d R ✓ know goes here! = 1+2⌧ tan2 Mott - Spin-1/2 d⌦ d⌦ ⇥ 2 d d ⌧ Rosenbluth - Str = M G2 (Q2)+ G2 (Q2) d⌦ d⌦ ⇥ E " M Spin-1/2 with h i Structure 2 1 Q ✓ e ⌧ = , " = 1 + 2(1 + ⌧) tan2 e e' 4M 2 2 Gp (0) = 1 Gn (0) = 0 E E γ* Gp =2.793 Gn = 1.91 M M Sometimes GE = F1 ⌧F2 N N' written using: GM = F 1+F2 Form Factor Moments
i~k ~r 3 2 3d Fourier Transform e · ⇢(~r)d r r ⇢(r)j (kr)dr / 0 Z Z for isotropic density
1 1 1 G (Q2)=1 r2 Q2 + r4 Q4 r6 Q6 + E,M 6 E,M 120 E,M 5040 E,M ··· ⌦ ↵ ⌦ ↵ ⌦ ↵ Non-relativistic assumption (only) = k=Q; G is F.T. of density
dGE,M 2 2 6 2 = rE,M rE,M dQ 2 ⌘ Q =0 ⌦ ↵ Slope of G E,M at Q2=0 defines the radii. This is what FF experiments quote. Notes
• In NRQM, the FF is the 3d Fourier transform (FT) of the Breit frame spatial distribution, but the Breit frame is not the rest frame, and doing this confuses people who do not know better. The low Q2 expansion remains.
Boost effects in relativistic theories destroy our ability to determine 3D rest frame spatial distributions. The FF is the 2d FT of the transverse spatial distribution.
The slope of the FF at Q2 = 0 continues to be called the radius for reasons of history / simplicity / NRQM, but it is not the radius.
Nucleon magnetic FFs crudely follow the dipole formula, GD = (1+Q2/0.71 GeV2)-2, which a) has the expected high Q2 pQCD behavior, and b) is amusingly the 3d FT of an exponential, but c) has no theoretical significance Measurement Techniques Rosenbluth Separation d d ⌧ Q2 Str = M G2 (Q2)+ G2 (Q2) ; ⌧ d⌦ d⌦ ⇥ E " M ⌘ 4M 2 h i 2 2 R =(d /d )/(d /d )Mott = ⇥GM + ⇤GE
• Measure the reduced cross section at several values of ε (angle/beam energy combination) while keeping Q2 fixed.
• Linear fit to get intercept and slope. 1950s
r =0.74(24) fm h Ei
Fit to RMS Radius Stanford 1956
R. Hofstadter R.W. McAllister and R. Hofstadter, Phys. Rev. 102, 851 (1956) Nobel Prize 1961 Low Q2 in 1974
r =0.810(40) fm h Ei
Q2 =0.0389 GeV 2
Fit to GE(Q2) = a0+a1Q2+a2Q4 Saskatoon 1974
J. J. Murphy, Y. M. Shin, D. M. Skopik, Phys. Rev. C9, 2125 (1974) Low Q2 in the 80s
r =0.862(12) fm h Ei
2 2 2 GD =(1+Q /18.23 fm ) 2 2 2 =(1+Q /0.71 GeV )
From the dipole form get rE~0.81 fm
G. G. Simon, Ch. Smith, F. Borkowski, V. H. Walther, NPA333, 381 (1980) GHP 04/30/2009
Recoil Polarization
• Direct factor ratiosmeasurement by measuring of form the ratio of the transferred polarization and P l . l0 P t 2 Measurement Techniques (1 P l0 P t l E )G e E G 4 E M G e tan M ' e E G P (1 2 ⇥e M t ( I0PEt = 2 ⇤)G(12 + ⇤)GEGM tan P e M E tan 2 2 l e ) Advantages: 2M ' e tan 2 • Ee + Ee e 2 2 ⇥e only one measurementI0Pl = is needed2 for ⇤(1 + ⇤)G tan each M M 2 Q 2 • much better. precision than a cross section measurement. Pn = 0 (1 ) • two -photon exchange effect small. GE Pt Ee + Ee e µp = µp tan R ⇥ GM Pl 2M 2
• A single measurement gives ratio of form factors. • Interference of “small” and “large” terms allow measurement at practically all values of Q2. Measurement Techniques
Polarized Cross Section: σ=Σ+hΔ