Mesonic anapole form factors of the nucleons Original Research Article

The chiral quark model posits pseudoscalar and vector meson couplings to constituent quarks. The parity violating meson–quark couplings lead to anapole moments and form factors of the nucleons. These arise both as parity violating meson loop fluctuations as well as exchange currents and polarization currents that are induced by the parity violating interaction between quarks. Because of cancellations between the different contributions the magnitude of the calculated anapole moments is only of the order ∼10−8 and is determined mainly by magnitude of the parity-violating meson–nucleon coupling constants.