Radiative corrections to elastic muon-proton scattering at low momentum transfers

Norbert Kaiser (Physik-Department T39, Technische Universität München, D-85748 Garching, Germany) ; Yong-Hui Lin (Helmholtz-Institut für Strahlen- und Kernphysik and Bethe Center for Theoretical Physics, Universität Bonn, D-53115 Bonn, Germany) ; Ulf-G. Meißner (Helmholtz-Institut für Strahlen- und Kernphysik and Bethe Center for Theoretical Physics, Universität Bonn, D-53115 Bonn, Germany and Institute for Advanced Simulation, Institut für Kernphysik, Center for Advanced Simulation and Analytics, and Jülich Center for Hadron Physics, Forschungszentrum Jülich, D-52425 Jülich, Germany)

We systematically calculate the radiative corrections of order α/π to elastic muon-proton scattering at low momentum transfers. These include vacuum polarization, photon-loop form factors of the muon and the proton, two-photon exchange corrections and soft photon radiation. In particular, we discuss these corrections for the kinematics of the upcoming AMBER experiment with a 100 GeV muon beam. It is found that for the ratio to the Born cross section, only the minor terms from the photon-loop form factors of the proton and two-photon exchange depend on the proton structure as predetermined by the strong interactions. The inclusion of soft photon radiation (below 20 MeV), which as such is mandatory to cancel the infrared divergences arising from virtual photon loops, points to a prominent role of bremsstrahlung among the radiative corrections of order α/π. Therefore, the calculation of the process μpμpγ must be extended beyond the soft photon approximation and tailored to the specific experimental conditions for a proper analysis of the upcoming AMBER data.

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Published on:
11 April 2022
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APS
Published in:
Physical Review D , Volume 105 (2022)
Issue 7
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.105.076006
arXiv:
2202.04409
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Published by the American Physical Society
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