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Flavor content of nucleon form factors in a VMD approach

Nuclear Theory 2008-11-26 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

The strange form factors of the nucleon are studied in a two-component model consisting of a three-quark intrinsic structure surrounded by a meson cloud. A comparison with the available experimental world data from the SAMPLE, PVA4, HAPPEX and G0 collaborations shows a good overall agreement. It is shown that the strangeness contribution to the electric and magnetic form factors is of the order of a few percent. In particular, the strange quark contribution to the charge radius is small (0.005 fm**2) and to the magnetic moment it is positive (0.315 n.m.).

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@article{arxiv.nucl-th/0607058,
  title  = {Flavor content of nucleon form factors in a VMD approach},
  author = {R. Bijker},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/0607058},
  year   = {2008}
}

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5 pages, 6 figures, 1 table, invited talk at PAVI06, Milos, Greece, May 16-20, 2006