Isospin breaking corrections to nucleon form factors in the constituent quark model

Abstract

We examine isospin breaking in the nucleon wave functions due to the $u-d$ quark mass difference and the Coulomb interaction among the quarks, and their consequences on the nucleon electroweak form factors in a nonrelativistic constituent quark model. The mechanically induced isospin breaking in the nucleon wave functions and electroweak form factors are exactly evaluated in this model. We calculate the electromagnetically induced isospin admixtures by using first-order perturbation theory, including the lowest-lying resonance with nucleon quantum numbers but isospin 3/2. We find a small ($\le 1\%$), but finite correction to the anomalous magnetic moments of the nucleon stemming almost entirely from the quark mass difference, while the static nucleon axial coupling remains uncorrected. Corrections of the same order of magnitude appear in charge, magnetic, and axial radii of the nucleon. The correction to the charge radius in this model is primarily isoscalar, and may be of some significance for the extraction of the strangeness radius from e.g. elastic forward angle parity violating electron-proton asymmetries, or elastic ${}^{4}He(\vec{e},e^{\prime })$ experiments.

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