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Nucleon elastic form factors at accessible large spacelike momenta

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2020-08-05 v1 High Energy Physics - Lattice Nuclear Experiment Nuclear Theory

Abstract

A Poincar\'e-covariant quark+diquark Faddeev equation is used to compute nucleon elastic form factors on 0Q218mN20\leq Q^2\leq 18 \,m_N^2 (mNm_N is the nucleon mass) and elucidate their role as probes of emergent hadronic mass in the Standard Model. The calculations expose features of the form factors that can be tested in new generation experiments at existing facilities, e.g. a zero in GEp/GMpG_E^p/G_M^p; a maximum in GEn/GMnG_E^n/G_M^n; and a zero in the proton's dd-quark Dirac form factor, F1dF_1^d. Additionally, examination of the associated light-front-transverse number and anomalous magnetisation densities reveals, inter alia: a marked excess of valence uu-quarks in the neighbourhood of the proton's centre of transverse momentum; and that the valence dd-quark is markedly more active magnetically than either of the valence uu-quarks. The calculations and analysis also reveal other aspects of nucleon structure that could be tested with a high-luminosity accelerator capable of delivering higher beam energies than are currently available.

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@article{arxiv.2003.11655,
  title  = {Nucleon elastic form factors at accessible large spacelike momenta},
  author = {Zhu-Fang Cui and Chen Chen and Daniele Binosi and Feliciano De Soto and Craig D. Roberts and Jose Rodriguez-Quintero and Sebastian M. Schmidt and Jorge Segovia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.11655},
  year   = {2020}
}

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14 pages, 9 figures, 1 table