Investigations into Systematic Effects in the Analysis of MUSE

The Muon Scattering Experiment (MUSE) aims to address the proton radius puzzle, which emerged after the identification of discrepancies in the proton charge radius as measured by muonic hydrogen spectroscopy versus electron-proton interactions. To accomplish this, MUSE uses simultaneous muon and electron elastic scattering from a liquid hydrogen target to extract the proton charge radius from electromagnetic form factor measurements. With positively and negatively charged states for the incident leptons, the experiment will also shed light on lepton universality and two photon exchange in elastic lepton scattering. Achieving high precision results requires an understanding of the processes and systematic effects involved in elastic lepton-proton scattering. These effects include Moller/Bhabha scattering from atomic electrons in the target and the stability of the incident beam parameters over time. This talk will present some of the investigations into the systematic effects that must be accounted for in the analysis of MUSE.