THE PROTON MASS, THE pi - N SIGMA TERM AND THE SCALE ANOMALY

Aug, 1989
6 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 236 (1990) 203-208
  • Published: 1990
Report number:
  • CERN-TH-5381/89

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Abstract: (Elsevier)
It is argued that the scale anomaly of QCD makes the nucleon mass more strongly dependent on the sea quark masses than the naive inference.
  • p: mass
  • pi nucleon: scattering amplitude
  • pi nucleon: sigma term
  • quantum chromodynamics: anomaly
  • quark: mass
  • quark: sea
  • renormalization: beta function
  • QUARK: SEA
  • RENORMALIZATION: BETA FUNCTION