Electromagnetic polarizability of the bound nucleon: Kinematic effects

1992
24 pages
Published in:
  • Nucl.Phys.A 548 (1992) 613-636
  • Published: 1992

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Abstract: (Elsevier)
Kinematic effects due to binding have been studied for the electric and magnetic polarizabilities of the nucleon within a nonrelativistic quark model. A specific unitary transformation of the model hamiltonian has been applied to disentangle nucleon and quark degress of freedom. It is shown that the naive guess of a vanishing or modification of the recoil diamagnetism β rec = −〈 D 2 〉/2 M for the bound nucleon is not correct. Instead, the same total magnetic polarizability β is shown to appear for the free and bound nucleon in the energy shift of the nucleon under the action of a static homogeneous magnetic field, as well as in the amplitude of αA scattering. The corresponding result can be formulated as a generalized low-energy theorem for Compton scattering by the bound nucleon. This results agrees also with the findings of a recent αA-scattering experiment carried out to study the polarizability of the bound nucleon. Generalization taking into account higher multipoles and ω-dependent terms in the polarizabilities are also provided.
  • photon nucleus: Compton scattering
  • Compton scattering: photon nucleus
  • quark: nonrelativistic
  • scattering amplitude
  • nucleon: polarizability
  • polarizability: electric
  • polarizability: magnetic
  • Hamiltonian formalism
  • kinematics: effect