Final state interactions and gauge invariant parton distributions

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DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(03)00121-4zbMATH Open1011.81510arXivhep-ph/0208038MaRDI QIDQ1865513FDOQ1865513


Authors: Yanyan Li Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 26 March 2003

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Parton distributions contain factorizable final state interaction effects originating from the fast-moving struck quark interacting with the target spectators in deeply inelastic scattering. We show that these interactions give rise to gauge invariance of the transverse momentum-dependent parton distributions. As compared to previous analyses, our study demonstrates the existence of extra scaling contributions from transverse components of the gauge potential at the light-cone infinity. They form a transverse gauge link which is indispensable for restoration of the gauge invariance of parton distributions in the light-cone gauge where the gauge potential does not vanish asymptotically. Our finding helps to explain a number of features observed in a model calculation of structure functions in the light-cone gauge.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0208038




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