Proton polarizabilities: status, relevance, prospects

Abstract

This is a brief review of the status of understanding the proton polarizabilities in chiral perturbation theory and of their relevance to the `proton charge radius puzzle'.

Comments: 4 pages, 1 figure; contribution to proceedings of the Workshop to Explore Physics Opportunities with Intense, Polarized Electron Beams up to 300 MeV, March 14-16, 2013 MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts