2006/12/31 by C. F. Perdrisat, C.F. Perdrisat, V. Punjabi +1 · 5 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quantum and Classical Electrodynamics #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.ppnp.2007.05.001
published as Prog.Part.Nucl.Phys.59:694-764,2007 · 71 pages, 43 figures (published version with typos corrected)
openalex publication_date 2007/05/11 · arxiv created 2007/09/12 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2017/03/16 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
There has been much activity in the measurement of the elastic electromagnetic proton and neutron form factors in the last decade, and the quality of the data has been greatly improved by performing double polarization experiments, in comparison with previous unpolarized data. Here we review the experimental data base in view of the new results for the proton, and neutron, obtained at MIT-Bates, MAMI, and JLab. The rapid evolution of phenomenological models triggered by these high-precision experiments will be discussed, including the recent progress in the determination of the valence quark generalized parton distributions of the nucleon, as well as the steady rate of improvements made in the lattice QCD calculations.