The electric dipole form factor of the nucleon

Abstract

The electric dipole form factor of the nucleon stemming from the QCD $\bar{\theta }$ term is calculated in chiral perturbation theory in leading order. To this order, the form factor originates from the pion cloud. Its momentum-dependence is proportional to a non-derivative time-reversal-violating pion-nucleon coupling, and the scale for momentum variation--appearing, in particular, in the radius of the form factor--is the pion mass.

Comments: 8 pages, 2 figures