Defining the Proton Radius: a Unified Treatment

Abstract

Background: There is significant current interest in knowing the value of the proton radius and also its proper definition. Purpose: Combine the disparate literatures of hydrogen spectroscopy and diverse modern parton distributions to show that the quantity $r_p^2\equiv -6G_E^{\prime }(0)$ is the relativistically proper definition that originates from the separate bodies of work. Methods: Use perturbation theory, light-front dynamics and elementary techniques to find relativistically correct definitions of the proton radius and charge density. Results: It is found that the very same proton radius is accessed by measurements of hydrogen spectroscopy and elastic lepton scattering. The derivation of the mean-square radius as a moment of a spherically symmetric three-dimensional density is shown to be incorrect. A relativistically-correct, two-dimensional charge density is related to the diverse modern literature of various parton distributions. Relativistically invariant moments thereof are derived in a new moment expansion, the RME.

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