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Angular momentum decomposition from a QED example

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-01-09 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We investigate the angular momentum decomposition with a quantum electrodynamics example to clarify the proton spin decomposition debates. We adopt the light-front formalism where the parton model is well defined. We prove that the sum of fermion and boson angular momenta is equal to half the sum of the two gravitational form factors A(0)A(0) and B(0)B(0), as is well known. However, the suggestion to make a separation of the above relation into the fermion and boson pieces, as a way to measure the orbital angular momentum of fermions or bosons, respectively, is not justified from our explicit calculation.

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@article{arxiv.1412.7775,
  title  = {Angular momentum decomposition from a QED example},
  author = {Tianbo Liu and Bo-Qiang Ma},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.7775},
  year   = {2015}
}

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