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Nuclear Physics B

Volume 107, Issue 1, 26 April 1976, Pages 65-81
Nuclear Physics B

Threshold π+ electroproduction at high-momentum transfer: A determination of the nucleon axial vector form factor

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Abstract

Threshold π+ electroproduction has been measured at momentum transfers ‖k2‖ of 0.45, 0.58 and 0.88 (GeV/c)2, extending the range of earlier measurements. Using PCAC and current algebra-based models we have deduced the axial vector form factor of the nucleon GA(k2), and find that the dipole parametrisation is favoured over the monopole. The value of MA in the dipole parametrisation is, in a weak PCAC model, 0.96 ± 0.03 GeV, in excellent agreement with neutrino measurements. The threshold cross section is also in excellent agreement with the predictions of a fixed-t dispersion relation model.

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