Interpretation of the Flavor Dependence of Nucleon Form Factors in a Generalized Parton Distribution Model

TL;DR

This paper interprets the flavor dependence of nucleon electromagnetic form factors at high momentum transfer using a reggeized diquark model of generalized parton distributions, linking partonic substructure to experimental data.

Contribution

It introduces a reggeized diquark model to explain flavor-specific behaviors of nucleon form factors at multi-GeV scales, connecting momentum and coordinate space insights.

Findings

D suppression of d quarks at large momentum transfer

Constant ratios of flavor-dependent Pauli to Dirac form factors

Correlation between partonic substructure and experimental data

Abstract

We give an interpretation of the $u$ and $d$ quarks contributions to the nucleon electromagnetic form factors for values of the four-momentum transfer in the multi-GeV region where flavor separated data have been recently made available. The data show, in particular, a suppression of $d$ quarks with respect to $u$ quarks at large momentum transfer. %and constant ratios of the flavor dependent Pauli to Dirac form factors ratios. This trend can be explained using a reggeized diquark model calculation of generalized parton distributions, thus providing a correlation between momentum and coordinate spaces, both of which are necessary in order to interpret the partonic substructure of the form factors. We extend our discussion to the second moments of generalized parton distributions which are believed to contribute to partonic angular momentum.