Effect of gluon-exchange pair-currents on the ratio G(E(P))/G(M(P))

Abstract

The effect of one-gluon-exchange (OGE) pair-currents on the ratio ${\mu }_p{G}_E^p/G_M^p$ for the proton is investigated within a nonrelativistic constituent quark model (CQM) starting from $SU(6)\times O(3)$ nucleon wave functions, but with relativistic corrections. We found that the OGE pair-currents are important to reproduce well the ratio ${\mu }_p{G}_E^p/G_M^p$. With the assumption that the OGE pair-currents are the driving mechanism for the violation of the scaling law we give a prediction for the ratio ${\mu }_n{G}_E^n/G_M^n$ of the neutron.

Comments: 5 pages, 4 figures