285 research outputs found
Essential Strangeness in Nucleon Magnetic Moments
Effective quark magnetic moments are extracted from experimental measurements
as a function of the strangeness magnetic moment of the nucleon. Assumptions
made in even the most general quark model analyses are ruled out by this
investigation. Ab initio QCD calculations demand a non-trivial role for strange
quarks in the nucleon. The effective moments from QCD calculations are
reproduced for a strangeness magnetic moment contribution to the proton of 0.11
, which corresponds to .Comment: HYP '94 presentation. File is a uuencoded postscript file of a 2 page
manuscript including figures. Also available via anonymous ftp from
pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu in pub/NTG/Leinweber as StrQrkNmom.ps(.gz) OSU PP
#94-063
Quasielastic neutrino-nucleus scattering
We study the sensitivity of neutral-current neutrino-nucleus scattering to
the strange-quark content of the axial-vector form factor of the nucleon. A
model-independent formalism for this reaction is developed in terms of eight
nuclear structure functions. Taking advantage of the insensitivity of the ratio
of proton to neutron yields to distortion
effects, we compute all structure functions in a relativistic plane wave
impulse approximation approach. Further, by employing the notion of a
bound-state nucleon propagator, closed-form, analytic expressions for all
nuclear-structure functions are developed in terms of an accurately calibrated
relativistic mean-field model. Using a strange-quark contribution to the
axial-vector form factor of , a significant enhancement in the
proton-to-neutron yields is observed relative to one with .Comment: 23 pages, 12 figures, Revtex, Submitted to Phys. Rev.
Subleading corrections to parity-violating pion photoproduction
We compute the photon asymmetry Bγ for near threshold parity-violating (PV) pion photoproduction through subleading order. We show that subleading contributions involve a new combination of PV couplings not included in previous analyses of hadronic PV. We argue that existing constraints on the leading order contribution to Bγ—obtained from the PV γ-decay of 18F—suggest that the impact of the subleading contributions may be more significant than expected from naturalness arguments
Chiral Symmetry and the Parity-Violating Yukawa Coupling
We construct the complete SU(2) parity-violating (PV)
interaction Lagrangian with one derivative, and calculate the chiral
corrections to the PV Yukawa coupling constant through in the leading order of heavy baryon expansion. We
discuss the relationship between the renormalized \hpi, the measured value of
\hpi, and the corresponding quantity calculated microscopically from the
Standard Model four-quark PV interaction.Comment: RevTex, 26 pages + 5 PS figure
Probing Nucleon Strangeness with Neutrinos: Nuclear Model Dependences
The extraction of the nucleon's strangeness axial charge, Delta_s, from
inclusive, quasielastic neutral current neutrino cross sections is studied
within the framework of the plane-wave impulse approximation. We find that the
value of Delta_s can depend significantly on the choice of nuclear model used
in analyzing the quasielastic cross section. This model-dependence may be
reduced by one order of magnitude when Delta_s is extracted from the ratio of
total proton to neutron yields. We apply this analysis to the interpretation of
low-energy neutrino cross sections and arrive at a nuclear theory uncertainty
of plus/minus 0.03 on the value of Delta_s expected to be determined from the
ratio of proton and neutron yields measured by the LSND collaboration. This
error compares favorably with estimates of the SU(3)-breaking uncertainty in
the value of Delta_s extracted from inclusive, polarized deep-inelastic
structure function measurements. We also point out several general features of
the quasielastic neutral current neutrino cross section and compare them with
the analogous features in inclusive, quasielastic electron scattering.Comment: 40 pages (including 11 postscript figures), uses REVTeX and
epsfig.st
K* nucleon hyperon form factors and nucleon strangeness
A crucial input for recent meson hyperon cloud model estimates of the nucleon
matrix element of the strangeness current are the nucleon-hyperon-K* (NYK*)
form factors which regularize some of the arising loops. Prompted by new and
forthcoming information on these form factors from hyperon-nucleon potential
models, we analyze the dependence of the loop model results for the
strange-quark observables on the NYK* form factors and couplings. We find, in
particular, that the now generally favored soft N-Lambda-K* form factors can
reduce the magnitude of the K* contributions in such models by more than an
order of magnitude, compared to previous results with hard form factors. We
also discuss some general implications of our results for hadronic loop models.Comment: 9 pages, 8 figures, new co-author, discussion extended to the
momentum dependence of the strange vector form factor
How Magnetic is the Dirac Neutrino?
We derive model-independent, "naturalness" upper bounds on the magnetic
moments \mu_\nu of Dirac neutrinos generated by physics above the scale of
electroweak symmetry breaking. In the absence of fine-tuning of effective
operator coefficients, we find that current information on neutrino mass
implies that |\mu_\nu | < 10^(-14) Bohr magnetons. This bound is several orders
of magnitude stronger than those obtained from analyses of solar and reactor
neutrino data and astrophysical observations.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures, Majorana case discussion corrected. References
updated; replaced to match published versio
Many-Body Currents and the Strange-Quark Content of 4he
Meson-exchange current (MEC) contributions to the parity-violating (PV)
asymmetry for elastic scattering of polarized electrons from He are
calculated over a range of momentum transfer using Monte Carlo methods and a
variational He ground state wavefunction. The results indicate that MEC's
generate a negligible contribution to the asymmetry at low-|\qv|, where a
determination of the nucleon's mean square strangeness radius could be carried
out at CEBAF. At larger values of momentum transfer -- beyond the first
diffraction minimum -- two-body corrections from the - \lq\lq
strangeness charge" operator enter the asymmetry at a potentially observable
level, even in the limit of vanishing strange-quark matrix elements of the
nucleon. For purposes of constraining the nucleon's strangeness electric form
factor, theoretical uncertainties associated with these MEC contributions do
not appear to impose serious limitations.Comment: 32 TEX pages and 7 figures (not included, available from authors upon
request), CEBAF Preprint #TH-94-1
Minimal Extension of the Standard Model Scalar Sector
The minimal extension of the scalar sector of the standard model contains an
additional real scalar field with no gauge quantum numbers. Such a field does
not couple to the quarks and leptons directly but rather through its mixing
with the standard model Higgs field. We examine the phenomenology of this model
focusing on the region of parameter space where the new scalar particle is
significantly lighter than the usual Higgs scalar and has small mixing with it.
In this region of parameter space most of the properties of the additional
scalar particle are independent of the details of the scalar potential.
Furthermore the properties of the scalar that is mostly the standard model
Higgs can be drastically modified since its dominant branching ratio may be to
a pair of the new lighter scalars.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figure
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