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Up- and down-quark contributions to the nucleon electromagnetic form factors at low $Q^2$

Nuclear Theory 2017-08-02 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

The spatial distribution of charge and magnetization within the nucleon (proton and neutron) is encoded in the elastic electromagnetic form factors GE(p,n)G_E^{(p,n)} and GM(p,n)G_M^{(p,n)}. These form factors have been precisely measured utilizing elastic electron scattering, and the combination of proton and neutron form factors allows for the separation of the up- and down-quark contributions to the nucleon form factors. We expand on our original analyses and extract the up- and down-quark contributions to the nucleon electromagnetic form factors from worldwide data with an emphasis on precise new data covering the low-momentum region, which is sensitive to the large-scale structure of the nucleon. From these, we construct the flavor-separated Dirac and Pauli form factors and their ratios, and compare the results to recent extractions and theoretical calculations and models.

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@article{arxiv.1701.01662,
  title  = {Up- and down-quark contributions to the nucleon electromagnetic form factors at low $Q^2$},
  author = {I. A. Qattan and J. Arrington},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1701.01662},
  year   = {2017}
}

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4 pages, 2 figures, Conference Proceedings, Frontiers in Theoretical and Applied Physics FTAPS2017