Exchange currents and nucleon magnetic moments

We investigate the effect of gluon and pion exchange currents on the magnetic moments of the nucleon using the constituent quark model. We also study the effect of scalar exchange currents connected with the confinement and sigma exchange potentials. We conclude that although individual exchange currents are quite large, the total exchange current contribution is relatively small, due to a cancellation of gluon, pion, and scalar exchange currents.Lecture presented at the Indian-Summer School on Interaction in Hadronic Systems, Praha (The Czech Republic), 25–31 August 1993.I would like to thank my colleagues Dr. E. Hernandez and Prof. K. Yazaki, for their collaboration in this field.