Isospin violation in the vector form factors of the nucleon
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A quantitative understanding of isospin violation is an increasingly important ingredient for the extraction of the nucleon’s strange vector form factors from experimental data. We calculate the isospin violating electric and magnetic form factors in chiral perturbation theory to leading and nextto-leading order respectively, and we extract the low-energy constants from resonance saturation. Uncertainties are dominated largely by limitations in the current knowledge of some vector meson couplings. The resulting bounds on isospin violation are sufficiently precise to be of value to on-going experimental studies of the strange form factors.
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