| Issue |
EPJ Web of Conferences
Volume 81, 2014
MESON 2014 – 13th International Workshop on Production, Properties and Interaction of Mesons
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| Article Number | 01009 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | Plenary talks | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20148101009 | |
| Published online | 26 November 2014 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20148101009
Puzzling out the proton radius puzzle
Institut für Kernphysik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, DE-55128 Mainz, Germany
a e-mail: miham@kph.uni-mainz.de
Published online: 26 November 2014
The discrepancy between the proton charge radius extracted from the muonic hydrogen Lamb shift measurement and the best present value obtained from the elastic scattering experiments, remains unexplained and represents a burning problem of today’s nuclear physics: after more than 50 years of research the radius of a basic constituent of matter is still not understood. This paper presents a summary of the best existing proton radius measurements, followed by an overview of the possible explanations for the observed inconsistency between the hydrogen and the muonic-hydrogen data. In the last part the upcoming experiments, dedicated to remeasuring the proton radius, are described.
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