Phenomenological implications of the nucleon's meson cloud
Abstract
The long-distance structure of the interacting nucleon receives important contributions from its couplings to light hadronic degrees of freedom -- a light meson cloud -- while an analogous nonperturbative mechanism is expected to generate an intrinsic charm (IC) component to the proton wavefunction. We investigate both possibilities, keeping for the former a special eye to improving the theoretical understanding of the pion-nucleon vertex in light of proposed measurements. Regarding the latter possibility of IC, we highlight recent results obtained by a global QCD analysis of the light-front model proposed in Hobbs et al. (Phys Rev D 89:074008, 2014).
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@article{arxiv.1411.2216,
title = {Phenomenological implications of the nucleon's meson cloud},
author = {T. J. Hobbs},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.2216},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
6 pages, 3 figures, presented at Light Cone 2014 in Raleigh, NC, corrected version. The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00601-015-0967-y, Few-Body Systems, Feb. 2015