Dispersion relation formalism for the two-photon exchange correction to elastic muon-proton scattering: elastic intermediate state

Abstract

We evaluate the two-photon exchange correction to the unpolarized cross section in the elastic muon-proton scattering within dispersion relations. One of the six independent invariant amplitudes requires a subtraction. We fix the subtraction function to the model estimate of the full two-photon exchange at one of three MUSE beam energies and make a prediction for the two other energies. Additionally, we present single and double polarization observables accounting for the lepton mass.

Comments: 16 pages, 9 figures, version published in Eur. Phys. J. C, 78 6 (2018) 514