Wednesday, April 24, 2013

1110.3665 (M. Rohrmoser et al.)

Flavor analysis of nucleon electromagnetic form factors    [PDF]

M. Rohrmoser, K. -S. Choi, W. Plessas
We have performed an evaluation of the individual up- and down-flavor contributions to the nucleon electromagnetic form factors within a relativistic constituent-quark model. It is found that the theoretical parameter-free predictions agree surprisingly well with recent experimental data from a flavor decomposition of the proton and neutron electromagnetic form factors for momentum transfers up to $Q^2\sim\;$3.5 GeV$^2$. It means that in this regime three-quark valence degrees of freedom dominate and other contributions, such as explicit mesonic effects, can at most play a minor role.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.3665

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