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On the two-boson exchange corrections to parity-violating elastic electron-proton scattering

Nuclear Theory 2010-04-14 v3

Abstract

The details of the calculation of the two-boson exchange effects in the parity-violating elastic epep scattering within a simple hadronic model, including both the nucleon and Δ(1232)\Delta(1232)-resonance intermediate states, are presented. We examine the sensitivity of our results with respect to choice of form factors. We emphasize the importance to use correct relations relating N to Δ\Delta and Δ\Delta to N transition vertex functions. The NΔN\Delta Coulomb quadrupole transition is found to play important role at higher Q23.0Q^2\geq 3.0 GeV2^2. We also elucidate the relation between our results and the well-known result on the γZE\gamma ZE effect given by Marciano and Sirlin (MS). The effect of the nucleon contribution δN\delta_N to parity-asymmetry APVA_{PV}, is found to be in general, larger than the corresponding Δ\Delta contribution δΔ\delta_\Delta except at extreme forward angles. The corrections to the extracted values of the strange form factors GEs+βGMsG^{s}_{E}+\beta G^{s}_{M} from the HAPPEX, A4, and G0 data are also presented. The total TBE corrections to the extracted values of GEs+βGMsG^{s}_{E}+\beta G^{s}_{M} in recent experiments of HAPPEX G0, and A4 are, depending on kinematics, found to be small except in a few cases where they range from -20.6% to 48.348.3 %.

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@article{arxiv.0910.3307,
  title  = {On the two-boson exchange corrections to parity-violating elastic electron-proton scattering},
  author = {Hai Qing Zhou and Chung Wen Kao and Shin Nan Yang and Keitaro Nagata},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0910.3307},
  year   = {2010}
}

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35 pages, 9 figures, accepted by Phys.Rev. C