The Singlet Axial Vector Coupling in the Effective Meson Baryon Lagrangian

The Goldberger-Treiman (GT) relation in the singlet channel, being consistent with the EMC experimental results, can be manifested in an extended a model in which the chiral symmetry in the singlet channel is realized in the parity doublet model by assuming that the excited nucleon state S₁₁ N(1535) is the parity partner of the nucleon state. The model gives a natural explanation of the smallness of the singlet axial vector coupling g_A⁰ without the necessity to assume a large strange sea contribution, and is unique in explaining the decay rate of N(1535) → N_η as well.