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Selected nucleon form factors and a composite scalar diquark

Nuclear Theory 2009-01-14 v1 High Energy Physics - Lattice High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Experiment

Abstract

A covariant, composite scalar diquark, Fadde'ev amplitude model for the nucleon is used to calculate pseudoscalar, isoscalar- and isovector-vector, axial-vector and scalar nucleon form factors. The last yields the nucleon sigma-term and on-shell sigma-nucleon coupling. The calculated form factors are soft, and the couplings are generally in good agreement with experiment and other determinations. Elements in the dressed-quark-axial-vector vertex that are not constrained by the Ward-Takahashi identity contribute ~20% to the magnitude of g_A. The calculation of the nucleon sigma-term elucidates the only unambiguous means of extrapolating meson-nucleon couplings off the meson mass-shell.

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@article{arxiv.nucl-th/9911068,
  title  = {Selected nucleon form factors and a composite scalar diquark},
  author = {J. C. R. Bloch and C. D. Roberts and S. M. Schmidt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/9911068},
  year   = {2009}
}

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12 pages, REVTEX, 5 figures, epsfig