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    Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire.

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    Deutsches Elektron Synchrotron.

  3. 3.

    Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.

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    European Muon Collaboration.

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    COmmon Muon Proton Apparatus for Structure and Spectroscopy.

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    COMPASS Apparatus for Measurements of Exclusive ReActions.

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Jörg, P. (2018). Preamble. In: Exploring the Size of the Proton. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90290-6_1

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