# References

Istituto   
Nazionale   
Fisica   
Nucleare

Sezione di ROMA

Piazzale Aldo Moro, 2

I-00185 Roma, Italy

INFN-1229/98

September 1998

Investigation of N-N\* Electromagnetic Form Factors within a Front-Form CQM

E. Pace<sup>a</sup>, G. Salmè<sup>b</sup> and S. Simula$`^c`$

<sup>a</sup>Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma ”Tor Vergata”, and Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione Tor Vergata, Via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, I-00133, Rome, Italy

<sup>b</sup>Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Roma I, P.le A. Moro 2, I-00185 Rome, Italy

<sup>c</sup>Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Roma III, Via della Vasca Navale 84, I-00146 Rome, Italy

## Abstract

The helicity amplitudes for the transitions $`NS_{11}`$ and $`NS_{31}`$ are presented. The amplitudes have been obtained within our front-form CQM model, based on hadron eigenstates of a relativistic mass operator and CQ current with Dirac and Pauli form factors.

Proceedings of XVI European Few-Body Conference on ”Few-Body Problems in Physics”, Autrans, June 1998. To appear in Few-Body Systems, Suppl.

Hadron electromagnetic (em) form factors have been recently investigated within the front-form constituent quark (CQ) model of  for space-like values of the four-momentum transfer. The main features of the model are: i) the use of hadron eigenfunctions of a relativistic mass operator, that includes an effective $`qq`$ interaction and reproduces the hadron spectra for a large set of quantum numbers ; ii) the use of a one-body em current operator containing phenomenological Dirac and Pauli form factors for CQ’s, which are determined by the request of reproducing the existing experimental data for the pion and nucleon elastic form factors (cf. ). Such a model has been already applied for obtaining a parameter-free prediction of the em form factors for the transitions to $`N^{}(1440)`$ and $`\mathrm{\Delta }(1232)`$, including the possible effects due to the $`D`$-wave components in the $`\mathrm{\Delta }`$ wave function, .

In this contribution, we will present an analysis of transition form factors for $`NS_{11}(1535)`$, $`NS_{11}(1650)`$ and $`NS_{31}(1620)`$.

The current for negative-parity transition with $`J_f=1/2`$ is given in terms of Dirac ($`F_1^{f\tau }`$) and Pauli-like ($`F_2^{f\tau }`$) form factors by (cf. )

$`\overline{\mathrm{\Psi }}_fJ^\mu \mathrm{\Psi }_\tau =\overline{\mathrm{\Psi }}_f\gamma ^5\left[{\displaystyle \frac{p_f^\mu +p_i^\mu }{M_fM_i}}F_2^{f\tau }{\displaystyle \frac{M_f+M_i}{M_fM_i}}q^\mu F_1^{f\tau }+\gamma ^\mu (F_1^{f\tau }+F_2^{f\tau })\right]\mathrm{\Psi }_\tau `$ (1)   
where $`\tau =p,n`$. By using such a current, the helicities for negative-parity transition can be written as follows

$`S_{1/2}^\tau \left(Q^2\right)=\zeta \sqrt{{\displaystyle \frac{2\pi \alpha }{k^{}}}}\sqrt{{\displaystyle \frac{Q^+}{2M_iM_f}}}\sqrt{{\displaystyle \frac{Q^+Q^{}}{4M_f}}}{\displaystyle \frac{M_fM_i}{Q^2\sqrt{2}}}\left[F_1^{f\tau }{\displaystyle \frac{Q^2}{(M_fM_i)^2}}F_2^{f\tau }\right]`$   
$`A_{1/2}^\tau \left(Q^2\right)=\zeta \sqrt{{\displaystyle \frac{2\pi \alpha }{k^{}}}}\sqrt{{\displaystyle \frac{Q^+}{2M_iM_f}}}\left(F_1^{f\tau }+F_2^{f\tau }\right)`$ (2)   
where $`\zeta `$ is the sign of the $`\pi N`$ decay amplitude, $`k^{}=(M_f^2M_i^2)/2M_f`$, $`Q^\pm =(M_f\pm M_i)^2+Q^2`$. The invariant form factors in Eq. (2) can be obtained within the front-form CQ model following standard procedures (see, e.g., ), namely approximating the plus component of the transition current, $`^+`$, in terms of the sum of one-body CQ currents, containing CQ Dirac and Pauli form factors. In particular

$`F_1^{f\tau }={\displaystyle \frac{1}{2}}Tr\left(\sigma _z^+(\tau )\right)F_2^{f\tau }={\displaystyle \frac{M_fM_i}{2Q}}Tr\left(\sigma _x^+(\tau )\right).`$ (3)   
where $`_{\nu _f\nu _i}^+(\tau )=\overline{u}_{LF}^f(\nu _f)_{j=1}^3\left(e_j\gamma ^+f_1^j(Q^2)+i\kappa _j\frac{\sigma ^{+\rho }q_\rho }{2m_j}f_2^j(Q^2)\right)u_{LF}^\tau (\nu _i)`$.

In Figs. 1-5, our parameter-free evaluation of the helicity amplitudes, $`A_{1/2}`$ and $`S_{1/2}`$ are shown for $`NS_{11}(1535)`$, $`S_{11}(1650)`$ and $`S_{31}(1620)`$, respectively. In the case of $`S_{31}(1620)`$ the results for $`p`$ and $`n`$ coincides (as in the case of $`P_{33}(1232)`$), since only the isovector part of the CQ current is effective, given the isospin of the resonance.

The overall agreement between our predictions and the data is encouraging, though a most accurate set of data is necessary in order to reliably discriminate between different models. However, the sensitivity to relativistic effects for the P-wave resonances seems sizable.