Strange Electromagnetic Form Factors of the Nucleon with N_{f}=2+1 O(a)-Improved Wilson Fermions

Phys Rev Lett. 2019 Nov 22;123(21):212001. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.212001.

Abstract

We present results for the strange contribution to the electromagnetic form factors of the nucleon computed on the coordinated lattice simulation ensembles with N_{f}=2+1 flavors of O(a)-improved Wilson fermions and an O(a)-improved vector current. Several source-sink separations are investigated in order to estimate the excited-state contamination. We calculate the form factors on six ensembles with lattice spacings in the range of a=0.049-0.086 fm and pion masses in the range of m_{π}=200-360 MeV, which allows for a controlled chiral and continuum extrapolation. In the computation of the quark-disconnected contributions, we employ hierarchical probing as a variance-reduction technique.