A tale of two skyrmions: the nucleon's strange quark content in different large N_c limits

Abstract

The nucleon's strange quark content comes from closed quark loops, and hence should vanish at leading order in the traditional large $N_c$ (TLNC) limit. Quark loops are not suppressed in the recently proposed orientifold large $N_c$ (OLNC) limit, and thus the strange quark content should be non-vanishing at leading order. The Skyrme model is supposed to encode the large $N_c$ behavior of baryons, and can be formulated for both of these large $N_c$ limits. There is an apparent paradox associated with the large $N_c$ behavior of strange quark matrix elements in the Skyrme model. The model only distinguishes between the two large $N_c$ limits via the $N_c$ scaling of the couplings and the Witten-Wess-Zumino term, so that a vanishing leading order strange matrix element in the TLNC limit implies that it also vanishes at leading order in the OLNC limit, contrary to the expectations based on the suppression/non-suppression of quark loops. The resolution of this paradox is that the Skyrme model does not include the most general type of meson-meson interaction and, in fact, contains no meson-meson interactions which vanish for the TLNC limit but not the OLNC. The inclusion of such terms in the model yields the expected scaling for strange quark matrix elements.

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