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Title: Quantifying the nucleon’s pion cloud with transverse charge densities

Journal Article · · Physical Review C

The transverse densities in a fast-moving nucleon offer a model-independent framework for analyzing the spatial structure of the pion cloud and its role in current matrix elements. We calculate the chiral large-distance component of the charge density in a dispersion representation of the form factor and discuss its partonic interpretation. It dominates over the nonchiral density only at surprisingly large distances above ~2 fm. The chiral component can be probed in precision low-Q^2 elastic eN scattering or in peripheral deep-inelastic processes that resolve its quark/gluon content.

Research Organization:
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
DOE Contract Number:
AC05-06OR23177
OSTI ID:
1004061
Report Number(s):
JLAB-THY-10-1169; DOE/OR/23177-1216; arXiv:1004.3535; PRVCAN; TRN: US1100578
Journal Information:
Physical Review C, Vol. 82, Issue 4; ISSN 0556-2813
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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