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Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 16:24:58 -0400 From: David S. ArmstrongTo: finn@physics.wm.edu Cc: 'Yongguang Liang' , 'Mark Pitt' , 'Roger Carlini' , 'Jim Birchall' , 'Juliette Mammei' , 'Klaus Grimm' , 'Neven Simicevic' , 'Greg Smith' , 'Allena Opper' , 'Tony Forest' , 'Norman Morgan' , 'Mike Finn' , 'David Armstrong' , 'Shelley Page' , 'Dave Mack' , 'Richard Jones' Subject: Re: Measurements of Q2 Hi, Two pedagogic footnotes to Mike's nice message on the Q^2 determination: - Details on how this was dealt with for the HAPPEX-I measurement are available in the recent "long" paper: K.A. Aniol et al., Phys. Rev. C 69(2004)065501. Conceptually, what we do for Qweak should be rather similar to the HAPPEX case. - When Mike refers to "virtual radiative loss", I think a slightly better nomenclature would be "inner bremsstrahlung" or "internal bremssatrahlung", since it still refers to a process with a real photon on the final state; the photon is generated at the elementary Feynman diagram level of the scattering, as opposed to "external bremsstrahlung" which requires finite material, and where the photon is generated as the electron propagates through that material. cheers, David