13 research outputs found
Electromagnetic structure of the nucleon and the Roper resonance in a light-front quark approach
A relativistic light-front quark model is used to describe both the elastic
nucleon and nucleon-Roper transition form factors in a large Q2 range, up to 35
GeV2 for the elastic and up to 12 GeV2 for the resonance case. Relativistic
three-quark configurations satisfying the Pauli exclusion principle on the
light-front are used for the derivation of the current matrix elements. The
Roper resonance is considered as a mixed state of a three-quark core
configuration and a molecular N+sigma hadron component. Based on this ansatz we
obtain a realistic description of both processes, elastic and inelastic, and
show that existing experimental data are indicative of a composite structure of
the Roper resonance.Comment: 19 page
Electroproduction of lightest nucleon resonances up to Q*2=12 GeV*2 in quark models at light front
The lightest nucleon resonances are described at light front as mixed states of the 3q cluster (“quark core”) possessing a definite value of the inner orbital momentum L = 0,1 and a hadron molecular state, N+σ or Λ+K. Helicity amplitudes of the resonance electroproduction off the proton are calculated at large Q2 up to 12 GeV2 and compared to the last CLAS data. At this basis we have estimated the probability of quark core in lightest nucleon resonances and predicted the high Q2 behaviour of the resonance electrocoupling
Role of the rho meson in the description of pion electroproduction experiments at JLab
We study the p(e,e' pi+)n reaction in the framework of an effective
Lagrangian approach including nucleon, pi and rho meson degrees of freedom and
show the importance of the rho-meson t-pole contribution to sigmaT, the
transverse part of cross section. We test two different field representations
of the rho meson, vector and tensor, and find that the tensor representation of
the rho meson is more reliable in the description of the existing data. In
particular, we show that the rho-meson t-pole contribution, including the
interference with an effective non-local contact term, sufficiently improves
the description of the recent JLab data at invariant mass W less 2.2 GeV and Q2
less 2.5 GeV2/c2. A ``soft'' variant of the strong piNN and rhoNN form factors
is also found to be compatible with these data. On the basis of the successful
description of both the sigmaL and sigmaT parts of the cross section we discuss
the importance of taking into account the sigmaT data when extracting the
charge pion form factor Fpi from sigmaL.Comment: 23 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev.
Electroproduction of lightest nucleon resonances up to Q*2=12 GeV*2 in quark models at light front
The lightest nucleon resonances are described at light front as mixed states of the 3q cluster (“quark core”) possessing a definite value of the inner orbital momentum L = 0,1 and a hadron molecular state, N+σ or Λ+K. Helicity amplitudes of the resonance electroproduction off the proton are calculated at large Q2 up to 12 GeV2 and compared to the last CLAS data. At this basis we have estimated the probability of quark core in lightest nucleon resonances and predicted the high Q2 behaviour of the resonance electrocoupling