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Novel analysis of chiral loop effects in the generalized Gerasimov-Drell-Hearn sum rule

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-07 v2 Nuclear Experiment Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We study the chiral loop corrections to the generalized Gerasimov-Drell-Hearn sum rule of the nucleon for finite photon virtuality in the framework of a Lorentz-invariant formulation of baryon chiral perturbation theory. We perform a complete one-loop calculation and obtain significant differences to previously found results based on the heavy baryon approach for the proton and neutron spin-dependent forward Compton amplitudes.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0203167,
  title  = {Novel analysis of chiral loop effects in the generalized Gerasimov-Drell-Hearn sum rule},
  author = {Véronique Bernard and Thomas R. Hemmert and Ulf-G. Meißner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0203167},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

7 pp, 3 figs, published version, extended discussion, minor revisions