Dirac and Pauli form factors from lattice QCD

Roger Horsley, Sara Collins, Meinulf Gockeler, Philipp Hagler, Yoshifumi Nakamura, Andrea Nobile, Dirk Pleiter, Paul Rakow, Andreas Schafer, Gerrit Schierholz, Frank Winter, James Zanotti

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Abstract

We present a comprehensive analysis of the electromagnetic form factors of the nucleon from a lattice simulation with two flavors of dynamical O(a)-improved Wilson fermions. A key feature of our calculation is that we make use of an extensive ensemble of lattice gauge field configurations with four different lattice spacings, multiple volumes, and pion masses down to m_\pi ~ 180 MeV. We find that by employing Kelly-inspired parametrizations for the Q^2-dependence of the form factors, we are able to obtain stable fits over our complete ensemble. Dirac and Pauli radii and the anomalous magnetic moments of the nucleon are extracted and results at light quark masses provide evidence for chiral non-analytic behavior in these fundamental observables
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)074507
Number of pages31
JournalPhysical Review D
Volume84
Issue number7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 21 Oct 2011

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