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AUTHOR
Shihao Wu
Leading order corrections to the Bethe-Heitler process in the $\gamma p\rightarrow l^+l^-p$ reaction
The ratio of di-lepton production cross sections on a proton, using the $\gamma p\rightarrow l^+ l^- p$ process, above and below di-muon production threshold allows to extract the effective lepton-proton interaction, which is required to be identical for electrons and muons if lepton universality is exact. To test for a scenario of broken universality at the percent level, of the size which could explain the different proton charge radii extracted from electron scattering and from muonic hydrogen spectroscopy, we evaluate all one-loop QED corrections to this process, including the full lepton mass dependencies. We furthermore show that two-photon exchange processes with both photons attache…
Leading order corrections to the Bethe-Heitler process in the γp→l+l−p reaction
This paper focuses on all one-loop corrections to the Bethe-Heitler process involved in the reaction $\ensuremath{\gamma}\phantom{\rule{0}{0ex}}p\ensuremath{\rightarrow}{l}^{+}\phantom{\rule{0.333em}{0ex}}{l}^{\ensuremath{-}}\phantom{\rule{0}{0ex}}p$. These corrections are of paramount interest as they serve to check the exactness of the so called $l\phantom{\rule{0}{0ex}}e\phantom{\rule{0}{0ex}}p\phantom{\rule{0}{0ex}}t\phantom{\rule{0}{0ex}}o\phantom{\rule{0}{0ex}}n$ $u\phantom{\rule{0}{0ex}}n\phantom{\rule{0}{0ex}}i\phantom{\rule{0}{0ex}}v\phantom{\rule{0}{0ex}}e\phantom{\rule{0}{0ex}}r\phantom{\rule{0}{0ex}}s\phantom{\rule{0}{0ex}}a\phantom{\rule{0}{0ex}}l\phantom{\rule{0}{0ex}}i\phanto…
Leading order corrections to the Bethe-Heitler process in the γp→l+l−p reaction
The ratio of dilepton production cross sections on a proton, using the γp→l+l−p process, above and below the dimuon production threshold allows one to extract the effective lepton-proton interaction, which is required to be identical for electrons and muons if lepton universality is exact. To test for a scenario of broken universality at the percent level, of the size that could explain the different proton charge radii extracted from electron scattering and from muonic hydrogen spectroscopy, we evaluate all one-loop QED corrections to this process, including the full lepton mass dependencies. We furthermore show that two photon–exchange processes with both photons attached to the proton li…