104 research outputs found
Induced pseudoscalar form factor of the nucleon at two-loop order in chiral perturbation theory
We calculate the imaginary part of the induced pseudoscalar form factor of
the nucleon in the framework of two-loop heavy baryon chiral
perturbation theory. The effect of the calculated three-pion continuum on the
pseudoscalar constant measurable in
ordinary muon capture turns out to be negligibly small.
Possible contributions from counterterms at two-loop order are numerically
smaller than the uncertainty of the dominant pion-pole term proportional to the
pion-nucleon coupling constant . We conclude that a
sufficiently accurate representation of the induced pseudoscalar form factor of
the nucleon at low momentum transfers is given by the sum of the pion-pole
term and the Adler-Dothan-Wolfenstein term: , with fm
the axial mean square radius of the nucleon.Comment: 6 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in Physical Review
Annihilation of NMSSM neutralinos in the Sun and neutrino telescope limits
We investigate neutralino dark matter in the framework of NMSSM performing a
scan over its parameter space and calculating neutralino capture and
annihilation rates in the Sun. We discuss the prospects of searches for
neutralino dark matter in neutrino experiments depending on neutralino content
and its main annihilation channel. We recalculate the upper limits on
neutralino-proton elastic cross sections directly from neutrino telescopes
upper bounds on annihilation rates in the Sun. This procedure has advantages as
compared with corresponding recalcalations from the limits on muon flux,
namely, it is independent on details of the experiment and the recalculation
coefficients are universal for any kind of WIMP dark matter models. We derive
90% c.l. upper limits on neutralino-proton cross sections from the results of
the Baksan Underground Scintillator Telescope.Comment: 28 pages, 16 figures, accepted for publication in JCAP, references
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Chiral -exchange NN-potentials: Two-loop contributions
We calculate in heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory the local
NN-potentials generated by the two-pion exchange diagrams at two-loop order. We
give explicit expressions for the mass-spectra (or imaginary parts) of the
corresponding isoscalar and isovector central, spin-spin and tensor
NN-amplitudes. We find from two-loop two-pion exchange a sizeable isoscalar
central repulsion which amounts to MeV at fm. There is a
similarly strong isovector central attraction which however originates mainly
from the third order low energy constants entering the chiral -scattering amplitude. We also evaluate the one-loop -exchange diagram
with two second order chiral -vertices proportional to the low
energy constants as well as the first relativistic 1/M-correction
to the -exchange diagrams with one such vertex. The diagrammatic results
presented here are relevant components of the chiral NN-potential at
next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order.Comment: 6 pages, 2 figure
Low Energy Analyzing Powers in Pion-Proton Elastic Scattering
Analyzing powers of pion-proton elastic scattering have been measured at PSI
with the Low Energy Pion Spectrometer LEPS as well as a novel polarized
scintillator target. Angular distributions between 40 and 120 deg (c.m.) were
taken at 45.2, 51.2, 57.2, 68.5, 77.2, and 87.2 MeV incoming pion kinetic
energy for pi+ p scattering, and at 67.3 and 87.2 MeV for pi- p scattering.
These new measurements constitute a substantial extension of the polarization
data base at low energies. Predictions from phase shift analyses are compared
with the experimental results, and deviations are observed at low energies.Comment: 15 pages, 4 figure
Chiral corrections to kaon-nucleon scattering lengths
We calculate the threshold T-matrices of kaon-nucleon and antikaon-nucleon
scattering to one loop order in SU(3) heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory.
To that order the complex-valued isospin-1 threshold T-matrix can be
successfully predicted from the isospin-0 and 1 threshold T-matrices. As
expected perturbation theory fails to explain the isospin-0 threshold
T-matrix which is completely dominated by the nearby subthreshold
-resonance. Cancelations of large terms of second and third
chiral order are observed as they seem to be typical for SU(3) baryon chiral
perturbation theory calculations. We also give the kaon and eta loop
corrections to the scattering lengths and we investigate
scattering to one-loop order. The second order s-wave low-energy constants are
all of natural size and do not exceed 1 GeV in magnitude.Comment: 8 pages, 2 figures, published in Phys. Rev. C64, 045204 (2001),
corrections of numerical prefactors in Eqs.(10,11,12
The Inert Doublet Model and Inelastic Dark Matter
The annual modulation observed by DAMA/NaI and DAMA/Libra may be interpreted
in terms of elastic or inelastic scattering of dark matter particles. In this
paper we confront these two scenarios within the framework of a very simple
extension of the Standard Model, the Inert Doublet Model (IDM). In this model
the dark matter candidate is a scalar, the lightest component of an extra Higgs
doublet. We first revisit the case for the elastic scattering of a light scalar
WIMP, M_DM~10 GeV, a scenario which requires that a fraction of events in DAMA
are channelled. Second we consider the possibility of inelastic Dark Matter
(iDM). This option is technically natural in the IDM, in the sense that the
mass splitting between the lightest and next-to-lightest neutral scalars may be
protected by a Peccei-Quinn (PQ) symmetry. We show that candidates with a mass
M_DM between ~535 GeV and ~50 TeV may reproduce the DAMA data and have a cosmic
abundance in agreement with WMAP. This range may be extended to candidates as
light as ~50 GeV if we exploit the possibility that the approximate PQ symmetry
is effectively conserved and that a primordial asymmetry in the dark sector may
survive until freeze-out.Comment: 16 pages, 7 figures. v2: minor changes and discussion on the
embedding in SO(10) added. v3: matches the published version in JCA
Nucleon mass, sigma term and lattice QCD
We investigate the quark mass dependence of the nucleon mass M_N. An
interpolation of this observable, between a selected set of fully dynamical
two-flavor lattice QCD data and its physical value, is studied using
relativistic baryon chiral perturbation theory up to order p^4. In order to
minimize uncertainties due to lattice discretization and finite volume effects
our numerical analysis takes into account only simulations performed with
lattice spacings a5. We have also restricted ourselves to
data with m_pi<600 MeV and m_sea=m_val. A good interpolation function is found
already at one-loop level and chiral order p^3. We show that the
next-to-leading one-loop corrections are small. From the p^4 numerical analysis
we deduce the nucleon mass in the chiral limit, M_0 approx 0.88 GeV, and the
pion-nucleon sigma term sigma_N= (49 +/- 3) MeV at the physical value of the
pion mass.Comment: 12 pages, 4 figures, revised journal versio
Spectral functions of isoscalar scalar and isovector electromagnetic form factors of the nucleon at two-loop order
We calculate the imaginary parts of the isoscalar scalar and isovector
electromagnetic form factors of the nucleon up to two-loop order in chiral
perturbation theory. Particular attention is paid on the correct behavior of Im
and Im at the two-pion threshold
in connection with the non-relativistic 1/M-expansion. We recover the
well-known strong enhancement near threshold originating from the nearby
anomalous singularity at . In the
case of the scalar spectral function Im one finds a significant
improvement in comparison to the lowest order one-loop result. Higher order
-rescattering effects are however still necessary to close a remaining
20%-gap to the empirical scalar spectral function. The isovector electric and
magnetic spectral functions Im get additionally enhanced near
threshold by the two-pion-loop contributions. After supplementing their
two-loop results by a phenomenological -meson exchange term one can
reproduce the empirical isovector electric and magnetic spectral functions
fairly well.Comment: 10 pages, 6 figures, submitted to Physical Review
Today's View on Strangeness
There are several different experimental indications, such as the
pion-nucleon sigma term and polarized deep-inelastic scattering, which suggest
that the nucleon wave function contains a hidden s bar s component. This is
expected in chiral soliton models, which also predicted the existence of new
exotic baryons that may recently have been observed. Another hint of hidden
strangeness in the nucleon is provided by copious phi production in various N
bar N annihilation channels, which may be due to evasions of the
Okubo-Zweig-Iizuka rule. One way to probe the possible polarization of hidden s
bar s pairs in the nucleon may be via Lambda polarization in deep-inelastic
scattering.Comment: 8 pages LaTeX, 10 figures, to appear in the Proceedings of the
International Conference on Parity Violation and Hadronic Structure,
Grenoble, June 200
Azimuthal asymmetries at CLAS: Extraction of e^a(x) and prediction of A_{UL}
First information on the chirally odd twist-3 proton distribution function
e(x) is extracted from the azimuthal asymmetry, A_{LU}, in the
electro-production of pions from deeply inelastic scattering of longitudinally
polarized electrons off unpolarized protons, which has been recently measured
by CLAS collaboration. Furthermore parameter-free predictions are made for
azimuthal asymmetries, A_{UL}, from scattering of an unpolarized beam on a
polarized proton target for CLAS kinematics.Comment: 9 pages, 5 figures, late
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