Strangeness spin, magnetic moment and strangeness configurations of the proton

An, C. S.; Zou, B. S.; Riska, D. O.

Strangeness spin, magnetic moment and strangeness configurations of the proton

Authors

An, C. S.

Zou, B. S.

Riska, D. O.

Description

The implications of the empirical signatures for the positivity of the strangeness magnetic moment $μ_s$, and the negativity of the strangeness contribution to the proton spin $Δ_s$, on the possible $uuds\bar s$ configurations of five quarks in the proton are analyzed. The empirical signs for the values of these two observables can only be obtained in configurations where the $uuds$ system is orbitally excited and the $\bar s$ quark is in the ground state. The configurations, in which the $\bar s$ is orbitally excited, which include the conventional $K^+Λ^0$ congfiguration, with the exception of that, in which the $uuds$ component has spin 2, yield negative values for $μ_s$. Here the strangeness spin $Δ_s$, the strangeness magnetic moment $μ_s$ and the axial coupling constant $G_A^s$ are calculated for all possible configurations of the $uuds\bar s$ component of the proton. In the configuration with $[4]_{FS}[22]_F[22]_S$ flavor-spin symmetry, which is likely to have the lowest energy, $μ_s$ is positive and $Δ_s\simeq G_A^s\simeq -1/3μ_s$.
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