Chiral symmetry and the axial nucleon to Delta(1232) transition form factors

Abstract

We study the momentum and the quark mass dependence of the axial nucleon to Delta(1232) transition form factors in the framework of non-relativistic chiral effective field theory to leading-one-loop order. The outcome of our analysis provides a theoretical guidance for chiral extrapolations of lattice QCD results with dynamical fermions.

Comments: 18 pages, 3 figures