DAPNIA-06-146 |
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Recent developments in electromagnetic hadron form factors |
E. Tomasi-Gustafsson, E. A. Kuraev, Yu. M. Bystritskiy |
New data on electromagnetic hadron form factors have triggered large theoretical and experimental efforts and inspired new ideas and several proposals at different accelerators. The possibility to achieve $Q^2$ values up to $\\simeq $ 6 GeV$^2$ and the inconsistencies among form factors extracted from polarized and unpolarized experiments suggest to search for the two-photon contribution. A calculation of radiative corrections based on the structure function method can bring the results into agreement and shows that the two photon contribution to electron proton elastic scattering is small. |