Generalized spin polarizabilities of the nucleon in heavy-baryon chiral perturbation theory at order Omicron(p(4))

Chung Wen Kao; Marc Vanderhaeghen

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.272002

Generalized spin polarizabilities of the nucleon in heavy-baryon chiral perturbation theory at order Omicron(p(4))

Phys Rev Lett. 2002 Dec 30;89(27):272002. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.272002. Epub 2002 Dec 17.

Authors

Chung Wen Kao¹, Marc Vanderhaeghen

Affiliation

¹ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom.

PMID: 12513195
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.272002

Abstract

We present the first heavy-baryon chiral perturbation theory calculation at order Omicron(p(4)) for the spin-dependent amplitudes for virtual Compton scattering off the nucleon and extract the Omicron(p(4)) results for the generalized spin polarizabilities of the nucleon.