A Determination of the Nucleon Tensor Charge

Abstract

Exploiting an approximate phenomenological symmetry of the $J^{PC}=1^{+-}$ light axial vector mesons and using pole dominance, we calculate the flavor contributions to the nucleon tensor charge. The result depends on the decay constants of the axial vector mesons and their couplings to the nucleons.

To appear in the Proceedings of 9th International Symposium on Meson Nucleon Physics and the Structure of the Nucleon . (MENU 2001), Washington, District of Columbia, 26-31 July 2001