Note on the magnetic moment of the nucleon

May, 2008
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Abstract: (arXiv)
The Goldberger-Treiman relation M=2π/3fπclM=2\pi/\sqrt{3}f^{\rm cl}_\pi where MM is the constituent quark mass in the chiral limit (cl) and fπclf^{\rm cl}_\pi the pion decay constant in the chiral limit predicts constituent quark masses of mu=328.8±1.1m_u=328.8\pm 1.1 MeV and md=332.3±1.1m_d=332.3\pm 1.1 MeV for the up and down quark, respectively, when fπcl=89.8±0.3f^{\rm cl}_\pi=89.8\pm 0.3 MeV is adopted. Treating the constituent quarks as bare Dirac particles the following zero order values \mu^{(0)}}_p=2.850\pm 0.009 and \mu^{(0)}}_n= -1.889\pm 0.006 are obtained for the proton and neutron magnetic moments, leading to deviations from the experimental data of 2.0% and 1.3%, respectively. These unavoidable deviations are discussed in terms of contributions to the magnetic moments proposed in previous work.
  • nucleon: magnetic moment
  • PCAC model
  • pi: decay constant
  • quark: mass
  • numerical calculations