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What Do We Know About the Strange Magnetic Radius?

H. -W. Hammer, S. J. Puglia, M. J. Ramsey-Musolf, Shi-Lin Zhu

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/0206301

Abstract

We analyze the q2-dependence of the strange magnetic form factor, (q2), using heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory (HBChPT) and dispersion relations. We find that in HBChPT a significant cancellation occurs between the O(p2) and O(p3) loop contributions. Consequently, the slope of at the origin displays an enhanced sensitivity to an unknown O(p3) low-energy constant. Using dispersion theory, we estimate the magnitude of this constant, show that it may have a natural size, and conclude that the low-q2 behavior of could be dominated by nonperturbative physics. We also discuss the implications for the interpretation of parity-violating electron scattering measurements used to measure (q2).

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