nLab hadron current

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Fields and quanta

fields and particles in particle physics

and in the standard model of particle physics:

force field gauge bosons

scalar bosons

matter field fermions (spinors, Dirac fields)

flavors of fundamental fermions in the
standard model of particle physics:
generation of fermions1st generation2nd generation3d generation
quarks (qq)
up-typeup quark (uu)charm quark (cc)top quark (tt)
down-typedown quark (dd)strange quark (ss)bottom quark (bb)
leptons
chargedelectronmuontauon
neutralelectron neutrinomuon neutrinotau neutrino
bound states:
mesonslight mesons:
pion (udu d)
ρ-meson (udu d)
ω-meson (udu d)
f1-meson
a1-meson
strange-mesons:
ϕ-meson (ss¯s \bar s),
kaon, K*-meson (usu s, dsd s)
eta-meson (uu+dd+ssu u + d d + s s)

charmed heavy mesons:
D-meson (uc u c, dcd c, scs c)
J/ψ-meson (cc¯c \bar c)
bottom heavy mesons:
B-meson (qbq b)
ϒ-meson (bb¯b \bar b)
baryonsnucleons:
proton (uud)(u u d)
neutron (udd)(u d d)

(also: antiparticles)

effective particles

hadrons (bound states of the above quarks)

solitons

in grand unified theory

minimally extended supersymmetric standard model

superpartners

bosinos:

sfermions:

dark matter candidates

Exotica

auxiliary fields

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Idea

In quantum hadrodynamics, the hadron current is the current of hadrons.

In models with fundamental quarkfields qq (quantum chromodynamics or quark-meson coupling models) the (electromagnetic) hadron current is given by

J μ=q¯Qγ μq J^\mu \;=\; \overline{q} Q \gamma^\mu q

where QQ denotes the quark charge matrix (e.g. Piller-Weise 90).

(This is in contrast, for instance, to the lepton current, given by the analogous expression, but with leptons instead of quarks.)

In confined chiral perturbation theory the hadron current is given by vector mesons (vector meson dominance), and including the AA-variation of the chiral anomaly WZW term (see e.g. Wakamatsu 11).

References

General:

  • Oleg Boyarkin, Section 5.2 of: Advanced Particle Physics: The Standard Model and Beyond Volume II, CRC press, 2011

Related to vector meson dominance:

In terms of chiral perturbation theory:

  • Masashi Wakamatsu, On the electromagnetic hadron current derived from the gauged Wess-Zumino-Witten action, (arXiv:1108.1236, spire:922302)

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