Wednesday, June 26, 2013

1306.6073 (Chueng-Ryong Ji et al.)

Anatomy of relativistic pion loop corrections to the electromagnetic
nucleon coupling
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Chueng-Ryong Ji, W. Melnitchouk, A. W. Thomas
We present a relativistic formulation of pion loop corrections to the coupling of photons with nucleons on the light-front. Vertex and wave function renormalization constants are computed to lowest order in the pion field, including their nonanalytic behavior in the chiral limit, and studied numerically as a function of the ultraviolet cutoff. Particular care is taken to explicitly verify gauge invariance and Ward-Takahashi identity constraints to all orders in the m_\pi\ expansion. The results are used to compute the chiral corrections to matrix elements of local operators, related to moments of deep-inelastic structure functions. Finally, comparisons of results for pseudovector and pseudoscalar coupling allows the resolution of a long-standing puzzle in the computation of pion cloud corrections to structure function moments.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1306.6073

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