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Charge form factors of quark-model pions
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Charge form factors of quark-model pions

F Coester and W N Polyzou
Physical review. C, Nuclear physics, Vol.71(2), 028202
02/01/2005
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevC.71.028202

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Abstract

Experimental data of the pion charge form factor are well represented by Poincare invariant constituent-quark phenomenology depending on two parameters: a confinement scale and an effective quark mass. Pion states are represented by eigenfunctions of mass and spin operators and of the light-front momenta. An effective current density is generated by the dynamics from a null-plane impulse current density. A simple shape of the wave function depending only on the confinement scale is sufficient. The range of quark masses and confinement scales consistent with both low- and high-Q(2) data depends on the shape of the wave function.
Physical Sciences Physics Physics, Nuclear Science & Technology

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