Note on Strange Quarks in the Nucleon

Abstract

Scalar matrix elements involving strange quarks are studied in several models. Apart from a critical reexamination of results obtained in the Nambu and Jona-Lasinio model we study a scenario, motivated by instanton physics, where spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking is induced by the flavor-mixing 't Hooft interaction only. We also investigate possible contributions of virtual kaon loops to the strangeness content of the nucleon.

Comments: 12 pages, latex style. One figure, available from the author upon request. University of Regensburg TPR-94-04