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Sigma-term physics in the perturbative chiral quark model

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-31 v3

Abstract

We apply the perturbative chiral quark model (PCQM) at one loop to analyse meson-baryon sigma-terms. Analytic expressions for these quantities are obtained in terms of fundamental parameters of low-energy pion-nucleon physics (weak pion decay constant, axial nucleon coupling, strong pion-nucleon form factor) and of only one model parameter (radius of the nucleonic three-quark core). Our result for the piN sigma term of about 45 MeV is in good agreement with the value deduced by Gasser, Leutwyler and Sainio using dispersion-relation techniques and exploiting the chiral symmetry constraints.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0009341,
  title  = {Sigma-term physics in the perturbative chiral quark model},
  author = {V. E. Lyubovitskij and Th. Gutsche and Amand Faessler and E. G. Drukarev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0009341},
  year   = {2009}
}

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19 pages, LaTeX-file, 2 Figures

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