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Magnetic moments of confined quarks and baryons in an independent-quark model based on Dirac equation with power-law potential

Journal Article · · Phys. Rev. D; (United States)

The effect of confinement on the magnetic moment of a quark has been studied in a simple independent-quark model based on the Dirac equation with a power-law potential. The magnetic moments so obtained for the constituent quarks, which are found to be significantly different from their corresponding Dirac moments, are used in predicting the magnetic moments of baryons in the nucleon octet as well as those in the charmed and b-flavored sectors. We not only get an improved result for the proton magnetic moment, but the calculation for the rest of the nucleon octet also turns out to be in reasonable agreement with experiment. The overall predictions for the charmed and b-flavored baryons are also comparable with other model predictions.

Research Organization:
Department of Theoretical Physics, The Schuster Laboratory, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom
OSTI ID:
5499465
Journal Information:
Phys. Rev. D; (United States), Journal Name: Phys. Rev. D; (United States) Vol. 28:11; ISSN PRVDA
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English