Phenomenological analysis of nucleon strangeness and meson-nucleon sigma terms

Abstract

We calculate the nucleon strangeness $y_N$ in the chiral quark model and the meson cloud model. With the internal relation between the sigma term of $\pi$$N$ (${\sigma }_{\pi N}$) and $y_N$, we present the results of ${\sigma }_{\pi N}$ in these two models. Our calculations show that $y_N$ from the chiral quark model is significant larger than that from the meson cloud model, whereas the difference of ${\sigma }_{\pi N}$ between the two models is relatively small. We also present the results of ${\sigma }_{KN}$ and ${\sigma }_{\eta N}$, which could be determined by ${\sigma }_{\pi N}$ and $y_N$ from their definition in the current algebra, and find that these two physical parameters are quite sensitive to $y_N$. The results indicate the necessity to restrict the parameters of the two models from more precision measurements.

13 latex pages, no figure, to appear in PRD

References in corpus (1)

• Updated analysis of meson-nucleon sigma terms in the perturbative chiral quark model