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We present recent lattice QCD results on the electroweak nucleon to $\Delta$ transition and $\Delta$ form factors using dynamical fermion gauge configurations with a lowest pion mass of about 300 MeV, with special emphasis in the…
Weak interaction contributions to the strong theta parameter are revisited in the frame of a large-Nc Chiral Perturbation Theory. Focusing on the hadronic (eta,etaprime) \to pi pi amplitudes, we express these second-order corrections in…
We report a theoretical study of the axial Nucleon to Delta(1232) ($N\to\Delta$) transition form factors up to one-loop order in relativistic baryon chiral perturbation theory. We adopt a formalism in which the $\Delta$ couplings obey the…
We limit ourselves basically to the SU(2) flavor sector of the CKM matrix, as probed in processes like nuclear $\beta$-decay, normal and radiative muon capture and neutrino reactions. Current interests in this primarily stem from our…
Calculations of the magnetic dipole, electric quadrupole and Coulomb quadrupole amplitudes for the transition $\gamma N\to \Delta$ are presented both in quenched QCD and with two flavours of degenerate dynamical quarks.
We report a new measurement of the exclusive electroproduction reaction gamma* p -> pi0 p to explore the evolution from soft non-perturbative physics to hard processes via the Q2 dependence of the magnetic (M1+), electric (E1+) and scalar…
The four N to $\Delta$ axial transition form factors are evaluated using quenched QCD, using two flavors of dynamical Wilson fermions and using domain wall valence fermions on three-flavor MILC configurations for pion masses down to 360…
I discuss recent work on nucleon form factors, magnetic strangeness in the nucleon and the isovector nucleon-delta transition based on the broken chiral symmetry of QCD, utilizing recent theoretical developments in ChPT.
The parity violation programs at MIT-Bates, Jefferson Lab and Mainz are presently focused on developing a better understanding of the sea-quark contributions to the vector matrix elements of nucleon structure. The success of these programs…
We calculate the $O(a)$ improvement coefficient for the axial-vector current using the nonperturbative method proposed by the LANL group. Results for the coefficient in the range $\beta=5.93$ to 6.2 are presented. We find $c_A$ is close to…
The form factor for the anomalous process gamma pi^+ -> pi^+ pi^0, which is presently being measured at CEBAF, is calculated in the Schwinger-Dyson approach in conjunction with an impulse approximation. The form factors obtained by us are…
The effects of SU(3) symmetry breaking and configuration mixing have been investigated for the weak vector and axial-vector form factors in the chiral constituent quark model (\chi CQM) for the strangeness changing as well as strangeness…
Using non-local chiral quark model with simple pole ansatz for mass dependence on momentum and non-local currents satisfying Ward-Takahashi identities, we calculate pion to photon transition distribution amplitudes and relevant form…
The multipole amplitudes for the N - Delta electromagnetic transition are computed in the framework of the linear sigma model and the chiral chromodielectric model for small and moderate photon virtualities. The models include quark and…
We show that constraints from perturbative QCD calculations play a role in the nucleon to Delta(1232) electromagnetic transition even at moderate momentum transfer scales. The pQCD constraints, tied to real photoproduction data and…
The $\gamma^* \pi^0 \rightarrow \gamma$ form factor, including the extension off the pion mass-shell, is obtained from a generalized impulse approximation within a QCD-based model field theory known to provide an excellent description of…
Nucleon weak matrix elements can be extracted from nucleon correlation functions with lattice QCD simulations. The signal-to-noise ratio prohibits the analysis at large source-sink separations and as a consequence, excited state…
We investigate the properties of the amplitude induced by the anomaly. In a relatively high energy region those amplitudes are constructed by the vector meson poles and the anomaly terms, in which the anomaly terms can be essentially…
The charged current weak production of $\Delta (1232)$ from the free proton target induced by the electron/positron in the intermediate energy range corresponding to the beam energy available at JLab and Mainz, has been studied. The results…
The axial-vector form factor of the nucleons is considered in the framework of hard-wall model of holographic QCD. A new interaction term between the bulk gauge and matter fields was included into the interaction Lagrangian. We obtain the…