The effects of the kaonic cloud on the neutron electric form factor

Abstract

We investigate the effects of mesonic clouds on neutron electric and nucleon strange form factors in the framework of the chiral quark soliton model. We present a mechanism to identify the mesonic clouds and their Yukawa tail in the polarized Dirac sea. We find that, assuming hedgehog structures and semiclassical quantization, the neutron electric and the nucleon strange form factors are noticeably dependent on the value of the mass parameter in the Yukawa tails. A method is described to treat these Yukawa tails correctly. A hybrid way of calculating the neutron electric form factor is presented, which gives operationally both meson fields the proper Yukawa tails. This yields noticeably better agreement with experiment than previous calculations in the chiral quark soliton model and turns out to reproduce the data well.