Two-photon exchange in elastic ep scattering and the status of the OLYMPUS experiment
Abstract
Two-photon exchange in elastic ep scattering is believed to explain the observed discrepancy in the proton electric to magnetic form factor ratio, μpGEp /GMp , measured by Rosenbluth separation and by polarization transfer methods. To quantitatively determine the contribution of two-photon exchange to elastic scattering the OLYMPUS experiment was proposed and operated at the DESY laboratory in Hamburg, Germany to measure the ratio in the elastic scattering cross sections, σe+ p /σe- p . The OLYMPUS experiment used the positron and electron beams of the DORIS storage ring at a beam energy of 2.01 GeV incident on a windowless, internal, hydrogen gas target. A left/right symmetric detector measured the rates for elastic scattering over a broad kinematic range together with a redundant set of luminosity monitors. Approximately 4.45 fb-1 of integrated luminosity was collected. The current status of the OLYMPUS analysis will be presented.
- Publication:
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APS Division of Nuclear Physics Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- September 2014
- Bibcode:
- 2014APS..DNP.FC006H