Electromagnetic radii of the nucleon in soft-wall holographic QCD

Abstract

We revisit the electromagnetic form factors of the proton and neutron in the original-minimal soft-wall holographic QCD, which has only two parameters, i.e., the mass scale $\kappa$ and the twist parameter of the nucleon $\tau$. We first fix $\tau =3$ by the hard scattering rule, and extract $\kappa =0.402\text{GeV}$ from the world data (including the Mainz A1 data) of the Sachs magnetic form factor of the proton $G_M^p$. We then predict among others, the charge radius of the proton to be ${\mathbf{r}}_{\mathbf{p}}=0.831\pm 0.008\text{fm}$, in perfect agreement with the recent charge radius of the proton measured by the PRad collaboration at Jefferson Lab, and in agreement with the muonic hydrogen experiments. Our prediction for the proton elastic form factor ratio ${\mu }_p{G}_E^p/G_M^p$ is also in very good agreement with the recent high precision Jefferson Lab recoil polarization experiment E08-007 for $Q^2=0.3-0.6{\text{GeV}}^2$, and with the recent high precision Mainz A1 experiment for $Q^2<0.13{\text{GeV}}^2$.

Comments: v2: significantly improved, 14 pages (with two columns), 4 figures, 2 tables, our conclusion has changed (we know have perfect agreement with the PRad measurement of the charge radius of the proton, i.e., in the original-minimal soft-wall holographic QCD, we have predicted the charge radius of the proton to be ${\mathbf{r}}_{\mathbf{p}}=0.831\pm 0.008\text{fm}$.)