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Baryon electric dipole moments from strong CP violation

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2012-12-27 v3 High Energy Physics - Lattice Nuclear Theory

Abstract

The electric dipole form factors and moments of the ground state baryons are calculated in chiral perturbation theory at next-to-leading order. We show that the baryon electric dipole form factors at this order depend only on two combinations of low-energy constants. We also derive various relations that are free of unknown low-energy constants. We use recent lattice QCD data to calculate all baryon EDMs. In particular, we find d_n = -2.9\pm 0.9 and d_p = 1.1\pm 1.1 in units of 10^{-16} e \theta_0 cm. Finite volume corrections to the moments are also worked out. We show that for a precision extraction from lattice QCD data, the next-to-leading order terms have to be accounted for.

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@article{arxiv.1210.5887,
  title  = {Baryon electric dipole moments from strong CP violation},
  author = {Feng-Kun Guo and Ulf-G. Meißner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.5887},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

30 pages, 8 figures, to appear in JHEP