The Nucleon anapole moment and parity violating e p scattering

Feb, 2000
30 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 62 (2000) 033008
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Abstract:
Parity-violating (PV) interactions among quarks in the nucleon induce a PV γNN\gamma NN coupling, or anapole moment (AM). We compute electroweak gauge-independent contributions to the AM through {\cal O}(1/\lamchis) in chiral perturbation theory. We estimate short-distance PV effects using resonance saturation. The AM contributions to PV electron-proton scattering slightly enhance the axial vector radiative corrections, R_A^p, over the scale implied by the Standard Model when weak quark-quark interactions are neglected. We estimate the theoretical uncertainty associated with the AM contributions to R_A^p to be large, and discuss the implications for the interpretation PV of ep scattering.
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  • RevTex 29 pages + 8 PS figures, references and discussions added, to appear in Phys. Rev. D
  • electron p: elastic scattering
  • polarization
  • parity: violation
  • coupling: (nucleon photon)
  • moment: anapole
  • electroweak interaction
  • perturbation theory: chiral
  • effective Lagrangian
  • vector dominance
  • analyzing power
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