Nucleon-pion-state contribution in lattice calculations of the nucleon charges $g_A,g_T$ and $g_S$

Abstract

We employ leading order covariant chiral perturbation theory to compute the nucleon-pion-state contribution to the 3-point correlation functions one typically measures in lattice QCD to extract the isovector nucleon charges $g_A,g_T$ and $g_S$. We estimate the impact of the nucleon-pion-state contribution on both the plateau and the summation method for lattice simulations with physical pion masses. The nucleon-pion-state contribution results in an overestimation of all charges with both methods. The overestimation is roughly equal for the axial and the tensor charge, and about fifty percent larger for the scalar charge.

Comments: 18 pages, 8 figures. V3: A few comments and two references added; matches published version