Connected Parts of Decuplet Electromagnetic Properties

Abstract

We determine the electromagnetic properties of decuplet resonances using chiral perturbation theory at next-to-leading order. Utilizing a partially quenched charge matrix, we isolate and remove the quark disconnected contractions. This allows us to compare the physical meson loop contributions to the connected contributions, of which the latter are currently calculated using lattice QCD. Finally we determine linear combinations of decuplet resonance and hyperon electromagnetic properties that are exactly independent of disconnected contractions in the isospin limit.