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arXiv:1406.2962·v2·High Energy Physics — Phenomenology

Reduction of the proton radius discrepancy by 3 sigma

I. T. Lorenz🇩🇪 · U.-G. Meißner🇩🇪

Abstract

We show that in previous analyses of electron-proton scattering, the uncertainties in the statistical procedure to extract the proton charge radius are underestimated. Using a fit function based on a conformal mapping, we can describe the scattering data with high precision and extract a radius value in agreement with the one obtained from muonic hydrogen.

Comments: minor changes, matches the accepted version

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