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1 New Evaluation of Proton Structure 6 Corrections to Hydrogen Hyperfine 0 0 2 Splitting t c O Carl E. Carlson 1 3 ] h p Abstract: We consider the proton structure corrections to hydrogen ground-state hyperfine - structure, focusing on a state-of-the-art evaluation of the inelastic nucleon corrections—the m polarizability corrections—using analytic fits to the most recent data. We find a value for o the fractional correction ∆pol of 1.3 ± 0.3 ppm. This is 1–2 ppm smaller than the value of t ∆pol one would deduce using hyperfine splitting data and elastic proton structure corrections a . obtained from modern form factor fits. In addition, we discuss the derivations of the relevant s c formulas, paying attention to lepton mass effects and to questions surrounding the use of i unsubtracted dispersion relations. s y h PACS Nos.: 31.30.Gs, 32.10.Fn, 14.20.Dh, and 13.40.Gp p ´ ´ Resume : [ French version of abstract (supplied by CJP) 1 [Traduit par la r´edaction] v 9 8 1. Introduction 2 0 Hyperfine splitting (hfs) in the hydrogen ground state is measured to 13 significant figures in fre- 1 quency units [1], 6 − 0 Ehfs (e p ) = 1 420.405 751 766 7(9) MHz . (1) / s