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Partially conserved axial-current, noncanonicality and the sigma commutator

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6479283· OSTI ID:6479283

The pion nucleon sigma commutator, sigma(..pi..N), is studied using the quark mass term as the mechanism for chiral symmetry breaking. The resulting expression for the divergence of the axial-vector current is not a canonical field as conjectured in the hypothesis of partially conserved axial-vector current. This produces a significant modification of the relationship between the soft pion limit of isoscalar pion nucleon scattering amplitude and sigma(..pi..N). Thus the analysis of ..pi..N scattering data yields not the true sigma commutator but what we call the apparent sigma commutator, sigma/sub A/. The latter is a sum of sigma(..pi..N) and a contribution from the noncanonicality of the divergence of the axial-vector current. A pionically amended quark bag model (the Cloudy Bag Model) is used to calculate sigma/sub A/. The Cloudy Bag Model with its bag radius of 0.82 fm can be sigma/sub A/ = 25 MeV, the result of one of the recent studies of the quantity, with 7.7 MeV as the mean mass of u and d quarks.

Research Organization:
Washington Univ., Seattle (USA); Maryland Univ., College Park (USA). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
DOE Contract Number:
AS05-76ER05126; AC06-76ER01388
OSTI ID:
6479283
Report Number(s):
DOE/ER/05126-T2; RLO-1388-856; ORO-5126-135; ON: DE81023283
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English