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Radiatively Generated Isospin Violations in the Nucleon and the NuTeV Anomaly

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-11 v1

Abstract

Predictions of isospin asymmetries of valence and sea distributions are presented which are generated by QED leading O(α){\cal{O}}(\alpha) photon bremsstrahlung effects. Together with isospin violations arising from nonperturbative hadronic sources (such as quark and target mass differences) as well as with even a conservative contribution from a strangeness asymmetry (ssˉs\neq \bar{s}), the discrepancy between the large NuTeV `anomaly' result for sin2θW\sin^2\theta_W and the world average of other measurements is removed.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0503103,
  title  = {Radiatively Generated Isospin Violations in the Nucleon and the NuTeV Anomaly},
  author = {M. Glück and P. Jimenez-Delgado and E. Reya},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0503103},
  year   = {2009}
}

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10 pages, 2 figures