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Electromagnetic form factors of the nucleon in chiral perturbation theory including vector mesons

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We calculate the electromagnetic form factors of the nucleon up to fourth order in manifestly Lorentz-invariant chiral perturbation theory with vector mesons as explicit degrees of freedom. A systematic power counting for the renormalized diagrams is implemented using both the extended on-mass-shell renormalization scheme and the reformulated version of infrared regularization. We analyze the electric and magnetic Sachs form factors, GE and GM, and compare our results with the existing data. The inclusion of vector mesons results in a considerably improved description of the form factors. We observe that the most dominant contributions come from tree-level diagrams, while loop corrections with internal vector meson lines are small.

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  1. Institut für Kernphysik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, D-55099, Mainz, Germany

    M. R. Schindler, J. Gegelia & S. Scherer

  2. High Energy Physics Institute, Tbilisi State University, University, St. 9, 380086, Tbilisi, Georgia

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Schindler, M.R., Gegelia, J. & Scherer, S. Electromagnetic form factors of the nucleon in chiral perturbation theory including vector mesons. Eur. Phys. J. A 26, 1–5 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2005-10145-8

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