Axial charges of octet baryons in two-flavor lattice QCD

Abstract

We evaluate the strangeness-conserving NN, ΣΣ, ΞΞ, ΛΣ and the strangeness-changing ΛN, ΣN, ΛΞ, ΣΞ axial charges in lattice QCD with two flavors of dynamical quarks and extend our previous work on pseudoscalar-meson–octet-baryon coupling constants so as to include πΞΞ, KΛΞ and KΣΞ coupling constants. We find that the axial charges have rather weak quark mass dependence and the breaking in SU(3)-flavor symmetry is small at each quark-mass point we consider.