English

Covariant nucleon wave function with S, D, and P-state components

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2012-05-24 v1

Abstract

Expressions for the nucleon wave functions in the covariant spectator theory (CST) are derived. The nucleon is described as a system with a off-mass-shell constituent quark, free to interact with an external probe, and two spectator constituent quarks on their mass shell. Integrating over the internal momentum of the on-mass-shell quark pair allows us to derive an effective nucleon wave function that can be written only in terms of the quark and diquark (quark-pair) variables. The derived nucleon wave function includes contributions from S, P and D-waves.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1201.6336,
  title  = {Covariant nucleon wave function with S, D, and P-state components},
  author = {Franz Gross and G. Ramalho and M. T. Pena},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1201.6336},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

13 pages and 1 figure

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