Jun 2 – 7, 2019
Carnegie Mellon University
America/New_York timezone

The proton radius puzzle -- 9 years later

Jun 5, 2019, 9:15 AM
30m
McConomy Auditorium (CMU Cohon University Center)

McConomy Auditorium

CMU Cohon University Center

Invited Nucleon Structure Menu-2019 Plenary

Speaker

Jan Christopher Bernauer (Stony Brook University and RBRC)

Description

The so-called proton radius puzzle, the roughly 4% difference in the extracted values for the root-mean square charge radius of the proton from electron spectroscopy and scattering on one side, and muon spectroscopy on the other, remains unsolved for nine years now. Recent results from spectroscopy and scattering shed new light on the puzzle, but so far fall short of a satisfactory solution. In the talk, I will discuss the current state of the puzzle and describe upcoming experiments.

Early Consideration No
Graduate Student No

Primary author

Jan Christopher Bernauer (Stony Brook University and RBRC)

Presentation materials