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View SchemaPion electroproduction, PCAC, chiral Ward identities, and the axial form factor revisited
| Authors | T. Fuchs, S. Scherer |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | nucl-th/0303002 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/nucl-th/0303002 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevC.68.055501 |
| Journal | Phys.Rev. C68 (2003) 055501 |
Abstract
We re-investigate Adler's PCAC relation in the presence of an external electromagnetic field within the framework of QCD coupled to external fields. We discuss pion electroproduction within a tree-level approximation to chiral perturbation theory and explicitly verify a chiral Ward identity referred to as the Adler-Gilman relation. We critically examine soft-momentum techniques and point out how inadmissable approximations may lead to results incompatible with chiral symmetry. As a result we confirm that threshold pion electroproduction is indeed a tool to obtain information on the axial form factor of the nucleon.
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