Progress in resolving charge symmetry violation in nucleon structure

Abstract

Recent work unambiguously resolves the level of charge symmetry violation in moments of parton distributions using 2+1-flavor lattice QCD. We introduce the methods used for that analysis by applying them to determine the strong contribution to the proton-neutron mass difference. We also summarize related work which reveals that the fraction of baryon spin which is carried by the quarks is in fact structure-dependent rather than universal across the baryon octet.

8 pages, 4 figures; presented at "The Seventh International Symposium on Chiral Symmetry in Hadrons and Nuclei", BeiHang Univ. Beijing, China