Chiral effective theory predictions for deuteron form factor ratios at low Q^2

Details Chiral effective theory predictions for deuteron form factor ratios at low Q^2 Chiral effective theory predictions for deuteron form factor ratios at low Q^2

2006-08-13

arxiv.org/abs/nucl-th/0608036v1

J.Phys.G34:365-388,2007

Physics

Nuclear Physics

Nuclear Theory

31 pages, 7 figures

Scientific paper

10.1088/0954-3899/34/2/015

We use chiral effective theory to predict the deuteron form factor ratio G_C/G_Q as well as ratios of deuteron to nucleon form factors. These ratios are calculated to next-to-next-to-leading order. At this order the chiral expansion for the NN isoscalar charge operator (including consistently calculated 1/M corrections) is a parameter-free prediction of the effective theory. Use of this operator in conjunction with NLO and NNLO chiral effective theory wave functions produces results that are consistent with extant experimental data for Q^2 < 0.35 GeV^2. These wave functions predict a deuteron quadrupole moment G_Q(Q^2=0)=0.278-0.282 fm^2-with the variation arising from short-distance contributions to this quantity. The variation is of the same size as the discrepancy between the theoretical result and the experimental value. This motivates the renormalization of G_Q via a two-nucleon operator that couples to quadrupole photons. After that renormalization we obtain a robust prediction for the shape of G_C/G_Q at Q^2 < 0.3 GeV^2. This allows us to make precise, model-independent predictions for the values of this ratio that will be measured at the lower end of the kinematic range explored at BLAST. We also present results for the ratio G_C/G_M.

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