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Dissecting a strongly coupled scalar nucleon

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2025-03-12 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We continue our investigation of the stress within a strongly coupled scalar nucleon, and now dissect the gravitational form factors into contributions from its constituents, the (mock) nucleon and the (mock) pion. The computation is based on a non-perturbative solution of the scalar Yukawa model in the light-front Hamiltonian formalism with a Fock sector expansion including up to one nucleon and two pions. By employing the ``good currents" Ti++T^{++}_i, Ti+T^{+-}_i and Ti12T^{12}_i, we extract the full set of gravitational form factors AiA_i, DiD_i, cˉi\bar c_i without the contamination of the spurious form factors, and free of uncanceled UV divergences. With these results, we decompose the mass of the system into its constituents and compute the matter and mechanical radii, gaining insights into the strongly coupled system.

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@article{arxiv.2408.09535,
  title  = {Dissecting a strongly coupled scalar nucleon},
  author = {Xianghui Cao and Yang Li and James P. Vary},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.09535},
  year   = {2025}
}

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11 pages, 4 figures; published in PRD

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