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A criterion for assessing the reliability of measurements of the Sachs form factor ratio using the Rosenbluth technique is proposed and applied to an analysis of three known experiments (Andivahis1994, Walker1994, Qattan2005) and a recent experiment on the CEBAF accelerator upgraded to 12 GeV at JLab (arXiv:2103.01842 [nucl-ex]). Based on the results of the JLab polarization experiments on measuring the ratio \({{{{\mu }_{p}}{{G}_{{\text{E}}}}} \mathord{\left/ {\vphantom {{{{\mu }_{p}}{{G}_{{\text{E}}}}} {{{G}_{{\text{M}}}}}}} \right. \kern-0em} {{{G}_{{\text{M}}}}}}\) in the \(\vec {e}p \to e\vec {p}\) process in the kinematics of the SANE Collaboration experiment (2020) on the measurement of double spin asymmetry in the \(\vec {e}\vec {p} \to ep\) process, numerical calculations are performed for the \({{Q}^{2}}\) dependence of polarization transferred to the proton in the \(e\vec {p} \to e\vec {p}\) process when the initial proton at rest is partially polarized along the direction of motion of the detected recoil proton.
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I thank R. Lednicky for interest in this work and helpful discussions of the results.
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Galynskii, M.V. Reliability Analysis of the Results of the Known Experiments on Measuring of the Sachs Form Factor Ratio Using the Rosenbluth Technique. Polarization of the Final Proton in the \(e\vec {p} \to e\vec {p}\) Elastic Process. Phys. Part. Nuclei Lett. 19, 26–36 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1547477122010058
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