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Isovector and flavor diagonal charges of the nucleon from 2+1+1 flavor QCD
We present high-statistics results for the isovector and
flavor diagonal charges of the proton using 11 ensembles of 2+1+1
flavor HISQ fermions. In the isospin symmetric limit, results for
the neutron are given by the $u \leftrightarrow d$ interchange. A
chiral-continuum fit with leading order corrections was made to
extract the connected and disconnected contributions in the
continuum limit and at $M_\pi=135$~MeV. All results are given in the
$\overline{MS}$ scheme at 2~GeV. The isovector charges, $g_A^{u-d}
= 1.218(25)(30)$, $g_S^{u-d} = 1.022(80)(60) $ and $g_T^{u-d} =
0.989(32)(10)$, are used to obtain low-energy constraints on novel
scalar and tensor interactions, $\epsilon_{S}$ and $\epsilon_{T}$,
at the TeV scale. The flavor diagonal axial charges are: $g_A^u
\equiv \Delta u \equiv \langle 1 \rangle_{\Delta u^+} =
0.777(25)(30)$, $g_A^d \equiv \Delta d \equiv \langle 1
\rangle_{\Delta d^+} = -0.438(18)(30)$, and $g_A^s \equiv \Delta s
\equiv \langle 1 \rangle_{\Delta s^+} = -0.053(8)$. Their sum gives
the total quark contribution to the proton spin, $\sum_{q=u,d,s}
(\frac{1}{2} \Delta q) = 0.143(31)(36)$. This result is in good
agreement with the recent COMPASS analysis $0.13 < \frac{1}{2}
\Delta \Sigma < 0.18$. Implications of results for the flavor
diagonal tensor charges, $g_T^u = 0.784(28)(10)$, $g_T^d =
-0.204(11)(10)$ and $g_T^s = -0.0027(16)$ for constraining the quark
electric dipole moments and their contributions to the neutron
electric dipole moment are discussed. These flavor diagonal charges also
give the strength of the interaction of dark matter with nucleons via
axial and tensor mediators.
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- Award ID(s):
- 1653405
- PAR ID:
- 10097109
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- The 36th Annual International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory (LATTICE2018)
- Volume:
- 334
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 131
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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