On the observability of the quark orbital angular momentum distribution

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2014.02.017zbMATH Open1368.81038arXiv1310.5157OpenAlexW2024652409MaRDI QIDQ2011455FDOQ2011455

Authors: Aurore Courtoy, Gary R. Goldstein, J. Osvaldo Gonzalez Hernandez, Simonetta Liuti, Abha Rajan 

Publication date: 8 August 2017

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

Abstract: We argue that due to Parity constraints, the helicity combination of the purely momentum space counterparts of the Wigner distributions -- the generalized transverse momentum distributions -- that describes the configuration of an unpolarized quark in a longitudinally polarized nucleon, can enter the deeply virtual Compton scattering amplitude only through matrix elements involving a final state interaction. The relevant matrix elements in turn involve light cone operators projections in the transverse direction, or they appear in the deeply virtual Compton scattering amplitude at twist three. Orbital angular momentum or the spin structure of the nucleon was a major reason for these various distributions and amplitudes to have been introduced. We show that the twist three contributions associated to orbital angular momentum %to deeply virtual Compton scattering provide observables related to orbital angular momentum and are related to the target-spin asymmetry in deeply virtual Compton scattering, already measured at HERMES.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.5157

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics (81S30) Quantum state spaces, operational and probabilistic concepts (81P16)

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