Published August 12, 2005 | Version v1
Journal article

ss Component of the Proton and the Strangeness Magnetic Moment

  • 1. Helsinki Institute of Physics and Department of Physical Sciences, POB 64, 00014 University of Helsinki (Finland)
  • 2. Institute of High Energy Physics, CAS, P.O. Box 918, Beijing 100049 (China)

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A complete analysis is given of the implications of the empirical indications for a positive strangeness magnetic moment μs of the proton on the possible configurations of the uudss component of the proton. A positive value for μs is obtained in the ss configuration where the uuds subsystem is in an orbitally excited state with [4]FS[22]F[22]S flavor-spin symmetry, which is likely to have the lowest energy. The configurations in which the s is orbitally excited, which include the conventional K+Λ0 configuration, with the exception of that in which the uuds component has spin 2, yield negative values for μs. The hidden strangeness analogues of recently proposed quark cluster models for the θ+ pentaquark give differing signs for μs

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Journal Title
Physical Review Letters
Journal Volume
95
Journal Issue
7
Journal Page Range
p. 072001-072001.4
ISSN
0031-9007
CODEN
PRLTAO

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(c) 2005 The American Physical Society