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Nucleon Axial Form Factors Using $N_f = 2$ twisted mass fermions with a physical value of the pion mass

Authors :
Alexandrou, C.
Constantinou, M.
Hadjiyiannakou, K.
Jansen, Karl
Kallidonis, C.
Koutsou, G.
Vaquero Aviles-Casco, A.
Source :
Physical review / D 96(5), 054507 (2017). doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.96.054507
Publication Year :
2017
Publisher :
Inst., 2017.

Abstract

We present results on the nucleon axial and induced pseudoscalar form factors using an ensemble of two degenerate twisted mass clover-improved fermions with mass yielding a pion mass of $m_{\pi} = 130 MeV$. We evaluate the isovector and the isoscalar, as well as the strange and the charm axial form factors. The disconnected contributions are evaluated using recently developed methods that include deflation of the lower eigenstates, allowing us to extract the isoscalar, strange, and charm axial form factors. We find that the disconnected quark loop contributions are nonzero and particularly large for the induced pseudoscalar form factor.

Details

Language :
English
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Physical review / D 96(5), 054507 (2017). doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.96.054507
Accession number :
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