Measurement of the proton’s neutral weak magnetic form factor

B. Mueller, D. H. Beck, E. J. Beise, E. Candell, L. Cardman, R. Carr, R. C. DiBari, G. Dodson, K. Dow, F. Duncan, M. Farkhondeh, B. W. Filippone, T. Forest, H. Gao, W. Korsch, S. Kowalski, A. Lung, R. D. McKeown, R. Mohring, J. NapolitanoD. Nilsson, M. Pitt, N. Simicevic, B. Terburg, S. P. Wells

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Abstract

We report the first measurement of the parity-violating asymmetry in elastic electron scattering from the proton. The asymmetry depends on the neutral weak magnetic form factor of the proton which contains new information on the contribution of strange quark-antiquark pairs to the magnetic moment of the proton. We obtain the value Gm z = 0.34 ± 0.09 ± 0.04 ± 0.05 n.m. at Q2 = 0.1 (GeV/c)2.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)3824-3827
Number of pages4
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume78
Issue number20
DOIs
StatePublished - 1997

Funding

FundersFunder number
National Science Foundation Arctic Social Science Program
Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences9507412, 9457906, 9420470, 9420787
Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • General Physics and Astronomy

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