Nucleon electromagnetic form factors using lattice simulations at the physical point
- 4 August 2017
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 96 (3) , 034503
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.96.034503
Abstract
We present results for the nucleon electromagnetic form factors using an ensemble of maximally twisted mass clover-improved fermions with pion mass of about 130 MeV. We use multiple sink-source separations and three analysis methods to probe ground-state dominance. We evaluate both the connected and disconnected contributions to the nucleon matrix elements. We find that the disconnected quark loop contributions to the isoscalar matrix elements are small, giving an upper bound of up to 2% of the connected and smaller than its statistical error. We present results for the isovector and isoscalar electric and magnetic Sachs form factors and the corresponding proton and neutron form factors. By fitting the momentum dependence of the form factors to a dipole form or to the expansion, we extract the nucleon electric and magnetic radii, as well as the magnetic moment. We compare our results to experiment as well as to other recent lattice QCD calculations.
Keywords
All Related Versions
Funding Information
- Horizon 2020 Framework Programme
- H2020 Marie Sk?odowska-Curie Actions (642069)
This publication has 50 references indexed in Scilit:
- First physics results at the physical pion mass from Wilson twisted mass fermions at maximal twistPhysical Review D, 2017
- Laser spectroscopy of muonic deuteriumScience, 2016
- Nucleon and pion structure with lattice QCD simulations at physical value of the pion massPhysical Review D, 2015
- The structure of the nucleon: Elastic electromagnetic form factorsThe European Physical Journal A, 2015
- Model-independent extraction of the proton charge radius from electron scatteringPhysical Review D, 2010
- The size of the protonNature, 2010
- Chirally improving Wilson fermions I. O(a) improvementJournal of High Energy Physics, 2004
- Lattice QCD with a chirally twisted mass termJournal of High Energy Physics, 2001
- The static approximation of heavy-light quark systems. A detailed lattice studyNuclear Physics B, 1994
- Non-singlet axial vector couplings of the baryon octet in lattice QCDPhysics Letters B, 1989