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N->Delta Quadrupole Transition in the Constituent Quark Model

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v1 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

Information on the intrinsic deformation of the proton can be obtained by studying the electromagnetic p-->Delta+ quadrupole transition. Recent experiments have shown that the electric quadrupole (E2) strength in gamma p --> Delta+ is about 10 times larger than predicted by the simple quark model using only one-body currents. Our analysis provides evidence for the dominance of exchange currents in the N-->Delta quadrupole transition and identifies the physical mechanism leading to the observed E2 strength.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9909385,
  title  = {N->Delta Quadrupole Transition in the Constituent Quark Model},
  author = {A. J. Buchmann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9909385},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

12 pages, published in the Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Structure of Baryons, Bonn, Germany, Sept. 22-26, 1998, Baryons' 98, eds. D. W. Menze and B. Ch. Metsch, World Scientific, Singapore, 1999, pg. 731