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Asymptotic behavior of nucleon electromagnetic form factors in time-like region

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-11 v1

Abstract

We study the asymptotic behavior of the ratio of Pauli and Dirac electromagnetic nucleon form factors, F2/F1F_2/F_1, in time-like region for different parametrizations built for the space-like region. We investigate how fast the ratio F2/F1F_2/F_1 approaches the asymptotic limits according to the Phragm\`en-Lindel\"of theorem. We show that the QCD-inspired logarithmic behavior of this ratio results in very far asymptotics, experimentally unachievable. This is also confirmed by the normal component of the nucleon polarization, PyP_y, in e++eN+Nˉe^++e^-\to N+\bar{N} (in collisions of unpolarized leptons), which is a very interesting observable, with respect to this theorem. Finally we observe that the 1/Q parametrization of F2/F1F_2/F_1 contradicts this theorem.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0511077,
  title  = {Asymptotic behavior of nucleon electromagnetic form factors in time-like region},
  author = {E. Tomasi-Gustafsson and G. I. Gakh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0511077},
  year   = {2009}
}

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9 pages, 1 figure