Electron-Proton Scattering at High-Momentum Transfer

Abstract

The elastic electron-proton scattering cross section has been measured at laboratory angles between 90\ifmmode^\circ\else\textdegree\fi{} and 144\ifmmode^\circ\else\textdegree\fi{} and for values of the four-momentum transfer squared between 25 and 45 ${\mathrm{F}}^{\ensuremath{-}2}$ (incident electron laboratory energies from 830 to 1360 MeV). Both the scattered electrons and the recoil protons were momentum analyzed and counted in coincidence, making possible background-free measurements down to cross sections of the order of ${10}^{\ensuremath{-}35}$ ${\mathrm{cm}}^{2}$/sr. The data are consistent with the Rosenbluth formula, and the resulting form factors tie on well with previous measurements at lower momentum transfer, continuing the established trend.