Monday, September 17, 2012

1209.3246 (Xiangdong Ji et al.)

Transverse Polarization of the Nucleon in Parton Picture    [PDF]

Xiangdong Ji, Xiaonu Xiong, Feng Yuan
The proton's transverse polarization structure is examined in terms of the Lorentz-covariant Pauli-Lubanski vector in QCD. We find that there are contributions from leading, subleading, and next-to-subleading partonic contributions in the light-front system of coordinates. The subleading and next-to-subleading contributions are related to the leading one through Lorentz symmetry. And the leading contribution obeys a simple partonic angular momentum sum rule that gives a clear physical interpretation to a relation known previously.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.3246

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