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Leading Chiral Corrections to the Nucleon Generalized Parton Distributions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v4 High Energy Physics - Lattice Nuclear Theory

Abstract

Using heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory we study the leading chiral corrections to the complete set of nucleon generalized parton distributions (GPDs). We compute the leading quark mass and momentum transfer dependence of the moments of nucleon GPDs through the nucleon off-forward twist-2 matrix elements. These results are then applied to get insight on the GPDs and their impact parameter space distributions.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0602200,
  title  = {Leading Chiral Corrections to the Nucleon Generalized Parton Distributions},
  author = {Shung-ichi Ando and Jiunn-Wei Chen and Chung-Wen Kao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0602200},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

26 pages, 2 figures; minor revision