By Phiala Elisabeth Shanahan

This thesis discusses key themes: strangeness and cost symmetry violation (CSV) within the nucleon. It additionally presents a pedagogical creation to chiral powerful box concept adapted to the high-precision period of lattice quantum chromodynamics (QCD). as the nucleon has 0 internet strangeness, unusual observables supply super perception into the character of the vacuum; they could merely come up via quantum fluctuations during which strange–antistrange quark pairs are generated. therefore, the proper values of those amounts inside QCD are vital in physics arenas as various as precision assessments of QCD, searches for physics past the normal version, and the translation of darkish topic direct-detection experiments. equally, the appropriate wisdom of CSV observables has, with expanding experimental precision, turn into necessary to the translation of many searches for physics past the traditional version. during this thesis, the numerical lattice gauge idea method of QCD is mixed with the chiral perturbation idea formalism to figure out unusual and CSV amounts in a various diversity of observables together with the octet baryon plenty, sigma phrases, electromagnetic shape components, and parton distribution features. This thesis builds a finished and coherent photograph of the present prestige of figuring out of strangeness and cost symmetry violation within the nucleon.

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20) This expression leads trivially to the celebrated ππ scattering lengths obtained by Weinberg in the 1960s [20] using current algebra techniques (as well as to predictions for the scattering amplitudes for any other four pseudoscalar mesons). Contributions at next-to-leading order are systematically included by incorporating terms involving higher derivatives and increased powers of the quark masses into the chiral Lagrangian. , chiral perturbation theory corresponds to an expansion in both quark-mass and momentum-dependent interactions and increasing loop complexity.

The number of meson-baryon vertices of dimension d B = 1, 2, 3, . . is denoted by NdMB B . 41) dB where L is the total number of loops. 42) dB 7 Subtleties regarding transitions between octet and decuplet baryon multiplets will be discussed later in this section. 4 Chiral Power Counting 35 to obtain the relation D = 2L + 2 + I B + (d M − 2)NdMM + dM (d B − 2)NdMB B . 43) dB The diagrams which are relevant to this body of work have a single baryon line running through the diagram. In this case d B NdMB B = I B + 1.

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