Lattice calculation of the strangeness magnetic moment of the nucleon

Dec, 1997
9 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 58 (1998) 074504
e-Print:
Report number:
  • UK-97-23,
  • ADP-97-55-T281

Citations per year

19982005201220192025024681012
Abstract:
We report on a lattice QCD calculation of the strangeness magnetic moment of the nucleon. Our result is GMs(0)=0.36±0.20G_M^s(0) = - 0.36 \pm 0.20 . The sea contributions from the u and d quarks are about 80% larger. However, they cancel to a large extent due to their electric charges, resulting in a smaller net sea contribution of 0.097±0.037μN - 0.097 \pm 0.037 \mu_N to the nucleon magnetic moment. As far as the neutron to proton magnetic moment ratio is concerned, this sea contribution tends to cancel out the cloud-quark effect from the Z-graphs and result in a ratio of 0.68±0.04 -0.68 \pm 0.04 which is close to the SU(6) relation and the experiment. The strangeness Sachs electric mean-square radius <rs2>E< r_s^2>_E is found to be small and negative and the total sea contributes substantially to the neutron electric form factor.
Note:
  • 10 pages, 5 figures, LaTex, UK/97-23, ADP-97-55/T281
  • fermion: lattice field theory
  • gauge field theory: SU(3)
  • nucleon: magnetic moment
  • nucleon: strangeness
  • quark: sea
  • nucleon: form factor
  • magnetic moment: ratio
  • numerical calculations: Monte Carlo
  • interpretation of experiments