Using effective field theory to analyse low-energy Compton scattering data from protons and light nuclei

HW Grießhammer, JA McGovern, DR Phillips… - Progress in Particle and …, 2012 - Elsevier
Compton scattering from protons and neutrons provides important insight into the structure
of the nucleon. For photon energies up to about 300 MeV, the process can be parameterised …

Nucleon polarizabilities: from Compton scattering to hydrogen atom

F Hagelstein, R Miskimen, V Pascalutsa - Progress in Particle and Nuclear …, 2016 - Elsevier
We review the current state of knowledge of the nucleon polarizabilities and of their role in
nucleon Compton scattering and in hydrogen spectrum. We discuss the basic concepts, the …

Predictive powers of chiral perturbation theory in Compton scattering off protons

V Lensky, V Pascalutsa - The European Physical Journal C, 2010 - Springer
We study low-energy nucleon Compton scattering in the framework of baryon chiral
perturbation theory (B χ PT) with pion, nucleon, and Δ (1232) degrees of freedom, up to and …

Compton scattering from the proton in an effective field theory with explicit Delta degrees of freedom

JA McGovern, DR Phillips… - The European Physical …, 2013 - Springer
We analyse the proton Compton-scattering differential cross section for photon energies up
to 325 MeV using Chiral Effective Field Theory (χEFT) and extract new values for the electric …

Chiral perturbation theory of muonic-hydrogen Lamb shift: polarizability contribution

JM Alarcón, V Lensky, V Pascalutsa - The European Physical Journal C, 2014 - Springer
The proton polarizability effect in the muonic-hydrogen Lamb shift comes out as a prediction
of baryon chiral perturbation theory at leading order and our calculation yields Δ E^(pol)(2P …

Role of diquark correlations and the pion cloud in nucleon elastic form factors

IC Cloët, W Bentz, AW Thomas - Physical Review C, 2014 - APS
Electromagnetic form factors of the nucleon in the spacelike region are investigated within
the framework of a covariant and confining Nambu–Jona-Lasinio model. The bound-state …

Predictions of covariant chiral perturbation theory for nucleon polarisabilities and polarised Compton scattering

V Lensky, JA McGovern, V Pascalutsa - The European Physical Journal C, 2015 - Springer
We update the predictions of the SU (2) baryon chiral perturbation theory for the dipole
polarisabilities of the proton,{α _ E1,\, β _ M1\} _p={11.2 (0.7),\, 3.9 (0.7)\} * 10^-4 α E 1, β M …

Anatomy of relativistic pion loop corrections to the electromagnetic nucleon coupling

CR Ji, W Melnitchouk, AW Thomas - Physical Review D—Particles, Fields …, 2013 - APS
We present a relativistic formulation of pion loop corrections to the coupling of photons with
nucleons on the light front. Vertex and wave function renormalization constants are …

Evaluation of the forward Compton scattering off protons. II. Spin-dependent amplitude and observables

O Gryniuk, F Hagelstein, V Pascalutsa - Physical Review D, 2016 - APS
The forward Compton scattering off the proton is determined by substituting the empirical
total photoabsorption cross sections into dispersive sum rules. In addition to the spin …

Elastic Compton scattering from 3He and the role of the Delta

A Margaryan, B Strandberg, HW Griesshammer… - The European Physical …, 2018 - Springer
We report observables for elastic Compton scattering from 3 He in Chiral Effective Field
Theory with an explicit Δ(1232) Δ (1232) degree of freedom (χ χ EFT) for energies between …