Axial Currents of Virtual Charm in Light Quark Processes

Abstract

The systematic investigations of the role of the virtual charm axial currents in the decay of $B$-mesons to $\hat{I}{\cdot }^{\prime }$ $K$ and the spin structure of the nucleon are performed. We reduce the divergence of the virtual charm axial current to a specific gluon operator. Since this operator receives the main contribution from topologically nontrivial components of the QCD vacuum, we rederive the Dyakonov-Petrov Effective Action, based on the instanton QCD vacuum model. This action is applied to the calculations of the coupling of $\hat{I}{\cdot }^{\prime }$ to the charm axial current and found $f_{\hat{I}{\cdot }^{\prime }}^{(c)}(\hat{I}¼\simeq m_c)=-(12.3\sim 18.4\mathrm{MeV}),$ providing a possibility for the explanations of the recent experimental data on $B\to \hat{I}{\cdot }^{\prime }K$-decay. Analogous calculations of the virtual charm content of the nucleon spin leads to $\hat{I}”c(\hat{I}¼\simeq m_c)=-(0.015\sim 0.024),$ which is one order of magnitude smaller than the analogous contribution of the strange quark.

26 pages, revtex, new references and PACS Codes added, minor corrections are made