Flavor twisted boundary conditions and the nucleon vector current
- 19 December 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 78 (11) , 114505
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.78.114505
Abstract
Using flavor twisted boundary conditions, we study nucleon matrix elements of the vector current. We twist only the active quarks that couple to the current. Finite volume corrections due to twisted boundary conditions are determined using partially twisted, partially quenched, heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory, which we develop for the graded group . Asymptotically these corrections are exponentially small in the volume, but can become pronounced for small twist angles. Utilizing the Breit frame does not mitigate volume corrections to nucleon vector current matrix elements. The derived expressions will allow for better controlled extractions of the isovector magnetic moment and the electromagnetic radii from simulations at zero lattice momentum. Our formalism, moreover, can be applied to any nucleon matrix elements.
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