Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Theory
Scientific paper
2003-07-17
Eur.Phys.J. A20 (2004) 293-315
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Theory
43 pages, 13 figures
Scientific paper
10.1140/epja/i2003-10144-9
We present a projector formalism which allows to define dynamical polarizabilities of the nucleon from a multipole expansion of the nucleon Compton amplitudes. We give predictions for the energy dependence of these dynamical polarizabilities both from dispersion theory and from leading-one-loop chiral effective field theory. Based on the good agreement between the two theoretical frameworks, we conclude that the energy dependence of the dynamical polarizabilities is dominated by chiral dynamics, except in those multipole channels where the first nucleon resonance Delta(1232) can be excited. Both the dispersion theory framework and a chiral effective field theory with explicit Delta(1232) degrees of freedom lead to a very good description of the available low energy proton Compton data. We discuss the sensitivity of the proton Compton cross section to dynamical polarizabilities of different multipole content and present a fit of the static electric and magnetic dipole polarizabilities from low-energy Compton data up to omega=170 MeV, finding alpha_E=(11.04+-1.36)*10^(-4) fm^3, beta_M =(2.76-+1.36)*10^(-4) fm^3.
Griesshammer Harald W.
Hemmert Thomas R.
Hildebrandt Robert P.
Pasquini Barbara
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