The CLAS Two Photon Exchange Experiment
ORAL
Abstract
There is a large discrepancy between the proton electron form factor (GEp(Q2)) measured using the Rosenbluth separation and polarization transfer methods. The most likely explanation of this discrepancy is the inclusion of two-photon exchange (TPE) amplitude contributions to the elastic electron-proton cross section. The TPE contribution can be extracted in a model-independent way from the measured ratio of the cross sections of positron-proton and electron-proton elastic scattering. This ratio was measured in Hall B at Jefferson Lab using a simultaneous mixed tertiary beam of electrons and positrons incident on a liquid hydrogen target in the center of the CLAS detector in 2010-2011. This talk will present the analysis techniques used to identify the elastic scattering events, and some preliminary results at Q2 = 1.4 (GeV/c)2.
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Authors
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Dasuni Adikaram
Old Dominion University