Quark and gluon orbital angular momentum and spin in hard processes

被引:82
作者
Bashinsky, SV [1 ]
Jaffe, RL
机构
[1] MIT, Ctr Theoret Phys, Nucl Sci Lab, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[2] MIT, Dept Phys, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
关键词
angular momentum; spin; polarized structure functions; parton distributions; deep-inelastic; processes;
D O I
10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00559-8
中图分类号
O412 [相对论、场论]; O572.2 [粒子物理学];
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摘要
We suggest a method of constructing gauge-invariant quark and gluon distributions that describe an abstract QCD observable and apply this method to analyze angular momentum of a hadron. In addition to the known quark and gluon polarized structure functions, we obtain gauge-invariant distributions for quark and gluon orbital angular momenta, and consider some basic properties of these distributions and their moments. (C) 1999 Published by Elsevier Science B.V.
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页码:303 / 317
页数:15
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