On the intrinsic limitation of the Rosenbluth method at large momentum transfer

Abstract

Correlations in the elastic electron proton scattering data show that the Rosenbluth method is not reliable for the extraction of the electric proton form factors at large momentum transfer, where the magnetic term dominates, due to the size and the $ϵ$ dependence of the radiative corrections.

Comments: 10 pages, 4 figures