Strange Quark Magnetic Moment of the Nucleon at the Physical Point

Authors

Raza Sabbir Sufian, University of KentuckyFollow
Yi-Bo Yang, University of KentuckyFollow
Andrei Alexandru, The George Washington University
Terrence Draper, University of KentuckyFollow
Jian Liang, University of KentuckyFollow
Keh-Fei Liu, University of KentuckyFollow

Abstract

We report a lattice QCD calculation of the strange quark contribution to the nucleon’s magnetic moment and charge radius. This analysis presents the first direct determination of strange electromagnetic form factors including at the physical pion mass. We perform a model-independent extraction of the strange magnetic moment and the strange charge radius from the electromagnetic form factors in the momentum transfer range of 0.051  GeV² ≲ Q² ≲ 1.31  GeV². The finite lattice spacing and finite volume corrections are included in a global fit with 24 valence quark masses on four lattices with different lattice spacings, different volumes, and four sea quark masses including one at the physical pion mass. We obtain the strange magnetic moment G^s_M(0) = −0.064(14)(09)μ_N. The four-sigma precision in statistics is achieved partly due to low-mode averaging of the quark loop and low-mode substitution to improve the statistics of the nucleon propagator. We also obtain the strange charge radius ⟨r²_s⟩_E = −0.0043(16)(14)  fm².

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-27-2017

Notes/Citation Information

Published in Physical Review Letters, v. 118, issue 4, 042001, p. 1-6.

© 2017 American Physical Society

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This group of authors is collectively known as the χQCD Collaboration.

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.042001

Funding Information

This work is supported in part by the U.S. DOE Grant No. DE-SC0013065. This research used resources of the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which is supported by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725. A. A. is supported by the NSF CAREER Grant No. PHY-1151648 and in part by the DOE Grant No. DE-FG02-95ER-40907.

Repository Citation

Sufian, Raza Sabbir; Yang, Yi-Bo; Alexandru, Andrei; Draper, Terrence; Liang, Jian; and Liu, Keh-Fei, "Strange Quark Magnetic Moment of the Nucleon at the Physical Point" (2017). Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications. 514.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/physastron_facpub/514