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Gluons and the eta' nucleon coupling constant

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-31 v1

Abstract

We derive the effective chiral Lagrangian for low energy eta--nucleon and eta'--nucleon interactions and show that gluonic degrees of freedom, via the axial anomaly, induce a contact term in the pp -> pp eta and pp -> pp eta' reactions. We then discuss the consequences for the extraction of g_{eta'NN} from experimental data.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9907373,
  title  = {Gluons and the eta' nucleon coupling constant},
  author = {Steven D. Bass},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9907373},
  year   = {2009}
}

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10 pages, LaTeX

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