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Aug 4 – 7, 2022
MIT Laboratory for Nuclear Science
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Soft-photon radiative corrections to the e^− p→e^−p l^− l^+ process

Aug 5, 2022, 5:00 PM
20m
26-414 (MIT Laboratory for Nuclear Science)

26-414

MIT Laboratory for Nuclear Science

Speaker

Niklas Keil (JGU Mainz)

Description

We calculate the leading-order QED radiative corrections to the process e^− p→e^− p l^− l^+ in the soft-photon approximation, in two different energy regimes which are of relevance to extract nucleon structure information. In the low-energy region, this process is studied to better constrain the hadronic corrections to precision muonic hydrogen spectroscopy. In the high-energy region, the beam-spin asymmetry for double-virtual Compton scattering allows us to directly access the generalized parton distributions. We find that the soft-photon radiative corrections have a large impact on the cross sections and are therefore of paramount importance to extract the nucleon structure information from this process. For the forward-backward asymmetry, the radiative corrections are found to affect the asymmetry only around or below the 1% level, whereas the beam-spin asymmetry is not affected at all in the soft-photon approximation, which makes them gold-plated observables to extract nucleon structure information in both the low- and high-energy regimes.

Primary authors

Dr Matthias Heller (JGU Mainz) Niklas Keil (JGU Mainz) Marc Vanderhaeghen (University Mainz)

Presentation materials