Electromagnetic Spin-1 Form-Factor Free of Zero-Modes

Abstract

The electromagnetic current J + for spin-1, is used here to extract the electromagnetic formfactors of a light-front constituent quark model. The charge (G 0 ), magnetic (G 1 ) and quadrupole G 2 form factors are calculated using different prescriptions known in the literature, for the combinations of the four independent matrix elements of the current between the polarisations states in the Drell-Yan frame. However, the results for some prescriptions relying only on the valence contribution breaks the rotational symmetry as they violate the angular condition. In the present work, we use some relations between the matrix elements of the electromagnetic current in order to eliminate the breaking of the rotational symmetry, by computing the zero-mode contributions to matrix elements resorting only to the valence ones.