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Phys Rev Lett. 2006 Nov 24;97(21):212001. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.212001. Epub 2006 Nov 21.

Measurements of the generalized electric and magnetic polarizabilities of the proton at low Q2 using the virtual-compton-scattering reaction.

Physical review letters

P Bourgeois, Y Sato, J Shaw, R Alarcon, A M Bernstein, W Bertozzi, T Botto, J Calarco, F Casagrande, M O Distler, K Dow, M Farkondeh, S Georgakopoulos, S Gilad, R Hicks, M Holtrop, A Hotta, X Jiang, A Karabarbounis, J Kirkpatrick, S Kowalski, R Milner, R Miskimen, I Nakagawa, C N Papanicolas, A J Sarty, S Sirca, E Six, N F Sparveris, S Stave, E Stiliaris, T Tamae, G Tsentalovich, C Tschalaer, W Turchinetz, Z-L Zhou, T Zwart

Affiliations

  1. Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA.

PMID: 17155738 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.212001

Abstract

The mean square polarizability radii of the proton have been measured for the first time in a virtual-Compton-scattering experiment performed at the MIT-Bates out-of-plane scattering facility. Response functions and polarizabilities obtained from a dispersion analysis of the data at Q2 = 0.057 GeV2/c2 are in agreement with O(p3) heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory. The data support the dominance of mesonic effects in the polarizabilities.

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