Hadron structure on the back of an envelope

A. W. Thomas, R. D. Young, D. B. Leinweber

Published 2005-09-27Version 1

In order to remove a little of the mysticism surrounding the issue of strangeness in the nucleon, we present simple, physically transparent estimates of both the strange magnetic moment and charge radius of the proton. Although simple, the estimates are in quite good agreement with sophisticated calculations using the latest input from lattice QCD. We further explore the possible size of systematic uncertainties associated with charge symmetry violation (CSV) in the recent precise determination of the strange magnetic moment of the proton. We find that CSV acts to increase the error estimate by 0.003 \mu_N such that G_M^s = -0.046 +/- 0.022 \mu_N.