scholarly journals NEW PREDICTIONS OF GENERALIZED SPIN POLARIZABILITIES IN HEAVY BARYON CHIRAL PERTURBATION THEORY

2006 ◽  
Vol 21 (10) ◽  
pp. 2027-2148 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHUNG-WEN KAO
Keyword(s):  
Perturbation Theory ◽  
Chiral Perturbation Theory ◽  
Spin Structure ◽  
Sum Rules ◽  
Heavy Baryon ◽  
Virtual Compton Scattering ◽  
Leading Order ◽  
Chiral Perturbation ◽  
Theoretical Understanding ◽  
Existing Data

We review the recent progress of the theoretical understanding of the spin structure of the nucleon based on Heavy Baryon Chiral Perturbation Theory (HBChPT). At low Q2 the spin structure of the nucleon is encoded into the generalized spin polarizabilities (spin GP's) extracted from the virtual Compton scattering (VCS) amplitudes. The spin GP's of the nucleon have been calculated up to next-to-leading order in HBChPT. Furthermore, the forward spin generalized polarizabilities, which are related to the nucleon polarized structure functions g1 and g2 through the sum rules based on dispersion relations, also have been calculated in HBChPT up to next-to-leading order. As a summary, the physics content of the existing data is discussed and some perspectives for future theoretical and experimental activities in this field are also presented.

scholarly journals SPIN POLARIZABILITY OF THE NUCLEON IN THE EFFECTIVE FIELD THEORY OF HEAVY BARYON

2006 ◽  
Vol 21 (19n20) ◽  
pp. 3947-3966
Author(s):  
K. B. VIJAYA KUMAR ◽  
YONG-LIANG MA ◽  
YUE-LIANG WU
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Perturbation Theory ◽  
Effective Field Theory ◽  
Chiral Perturbation Theory ◽  
Heavy Baryon ◽  
Effective Field ◽  
Leading Order ◽  
Chiral Perturbation ◽  
Spin Polarizability ◽  
Large Correction

We have constructed a heavy baryon effective field theory with photon as an external field in accordance with the symmetry requirements similar to the heavy quark effective field theory. By treating the heavy baryon and antibaryon equally on the same footing in the effective field theory, we have calculated the spin polarizabilities γi, i = 1,…,4 of the nucleon at third order and at fourth-order of the spin-dependent Compton scattering. At leading order (LO), our results agree with the corresponding results of the heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory, at the next-to-leading order (NLO) the results show a large correction to the ones in the heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory due to baryon–antibaryon coupling terms. The low-energy theorem is satisfied both at LO and at NLO. The contributions arising from the heavy baryon–antibaryon vertex were found to be significant and the results of the polarizabilities obtained from our theory is much closer to the experimental data.

scholarly journals The axion-baryon coupling in SU(3) heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Vonk ◽  
Feng-Kun Guo ◽  
Ulf-G. Meißner
Keyword(s):  
Perturbation Theory ◽  
Chiral Perturbation Theory ◽  
Heavy Baryon ◽  
Power Counting ◽  
Flavor Symmetry ◽  
Chiral Perturbation ◽  
Third Order ◽  
Stellar Objects ◽  
The Past ◽  
Dense Nuclear Matter

Abstract In the past, the axion-nucleon coupling has been calculated in the framework of SU(2) heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory up to third order in the chiral power counting. Here, we extend these earlier studies to the case of heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory with SU(3) flavor symmetry and derive the axion coupling to the full SU(3) baryon octet, showing that the axion also significantly couples to hyperons. As studies on dense nuclear matter suggest the possible existence of hyperons in stellar objects such as neutron stars, our results should have phenomenological implications related to the so-called axion window.

scholarly journals Chiral perturbation theory and nucleon–pion-state contaminations in lattice QCD

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (15) ◽  
pp. 1730011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oliver Bär
Keyword(s):  
Perturbation Theory ◽  
Chiral Perturbation Theory ◽  
Distribution Functions ◽  
Leading Order ◽  
Chiral Perturbation ◽  
Parton Distribution Functions ◽  
Physical Point ◽  
Source Sink ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Quark Momentum

Multiparticle states with additional pions are expected to be a non-negligible source of excited-state contamination in lattice simulations at the physical point. It is shown that baryon chiral perturbation theory can be employed to calculate the contamination due to two-particle nucleon–pion-states in various nucleon observables. Leading order results are presented for the nucleon axial, tensor and scalar charge and three Mellin moments of parton distribution functions (quark momentum fraction, helicity and transversity moment). Taking into account phenomenological results for the charges and moments the impact of the nucleon–pion-states on lattice estimates for these observables can be estimated. The nucleon–pion-state contribution results in an overestimation of all charges and moments obtained with the plateau method. The overestimation is at the 5–10% level for source-sink separations of about 2 fm. The source-sink separations accessible in contemporary lattice simulations are found to be too small for chiral perturbation theory to be directly applicable.

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