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arxiv: hep-ph/0503103 · v1 · submitted 2005-03-11 · ✦ hep-ph

Radiatively Generated Isospin Violations in the Nucleon and the NuTeV Anomaly

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Predictions of isospin asymmetries of valence and sea distributions are presented which are generated by QED leading ${\cal{O}}(\alpha)$ photon bremsstrahlung effects. Together with isospin violations arising from nonperturbative hadronic sources (such as quark and target mass differences) as well as with even a conservative contribution from a strangeness asymmetry ($s\neq \bar{s}$), the discrepancy between the large NuTeV `anomaly' result for $\sin^2\theta_W$ and the world average of other measurements is removed.

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