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Chiral Perturbation Theory Analysis of the Baryon Magnetic Moments Elizabeth Jenkins,a ∗ Michael Luke,b Aneesh V. Manohar,a ∗ and Martin J. Savageb † a) CERN TH Division, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland 2 b) Department of Physics, University of California at San Diego, 9 9 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093 1 c e D 5 1 Abstract v 6 1/2 2 Nonanalytic mq and mq ln mq chiral corrections to the baryon magnetic moments 2 2 are computed. The calculation includes contributions from both intermediate octet and 1 2 decuplet baryon states. Unlike the one-loop contributions to the baryon axial currents 9 / and masses, the contribution from decuplet intermediate states does not partially cancel h p that from octet intermediate states. The fit to the observed magnetic moments including - p m1/2 corrections is found to be much worse than the tree level SU (3) fit if values for e q h the baryon-pion axial coupling constants obtained from a tree level extraction are used. : v i Using the axial coupling constant values extracted at one loop results in a better fit to the X r magnetic moments than the tree level SU (3) fit. There are three linear relations amongst a 1/2 the magnetic moments when mq corrections are included, and one relation including 1/2 mq , mq ln mq and mq corrections. These relations are independent of the axial coupling constants of the baryons and agree well with exp