Exploring Hyperon Structure with Electromagnetic Transverse Densities
- Johannes Gutenberg Univ., Mainz (Germany)
- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States)
- Univ. de Valencia-CSIC, Valencia (Spain)
Here, we explore the structure of the spin-1/2 flavor-octet baryons (hyperons) through their electromagnetic transverse densities. The transverse densities describe the distribution of charge and magnetization at fixed light-front time and enable a spatial representation of the baryons as relativistic systems. At peripheral distances b~1/Mπ the transverse densities are computed using a new method that combines chiral effective field theory (χEFT) and dispersion analysis. The peripheral isovector densities arise from two-pion exchange, which includes the ρ resonance through elastic unitarity. The isoscalar densities are estimated from vector meson exchange (ω,Φ). We find that the “pion cloud” in the charged Σ hyperons is comparable to the nucleon, while in the Ξ it is suppressed. The Λ–Σ0 transition density is pure isovector and represents a clear manifestation of peripheral two-pion dynamics.
- Research Organization:
- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC05-06OR23177; PROMETEOII/2014/0068; FIS2014-51948-C2-2-P; SEV-2014-0398
- OSTI ID:
- 1462191
- Report Number(s):
- JLAB-THY-18-2641; DOE/OR/23177-4343; arXiv:1802.00479; PII: 1434; TRN: US1902112
- Journal Information:
- Few-Body Systems, Vol. 59, Issue 6; Conference: 11th International Workshop on the Physics of Excited Nucleons (NSTAR 2017), Columbia, SC (United States), 20-23 Aug 2017; ISSN 0177-7963
- Publisher:
- SpringerCopyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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