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Burkhardt-Cottingham-type sum rules for light-cone and quasi-PDFs

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-03-29 v2 High Energy Physics - Lattice

Abstract

The Burkhardt-Cottingham (BC) sum rule connects the twist-3 light-cone parton distribution function (PDF) gT(x)g_{T}(x) to the twist-2 helicity PDF g1(x)g_{1}(x). The chiral-odd counterpart of the BC sum rule relates the twist-3 light-cone PDF hL(x)h_{L}(x) to the twist-2 transversity PDF h1(x)h_{1}(x). These BC-type sum rules can also be derived for the corresponding quasi-PDFs. We perform a perturbative check of the BC-type sum rules in the quark target model and the Yukawa model, by going beyond the ultra-violet (UV) divergent terms. We employ dimensional regularization (DR) and cut-off schemes to regulate UV divergences, and show that the BC-type sum rules hold for DR, while they are generally violated when using a cut-off. This violation can be traced back to the breaking of rotational invariance. We find corresponding results for the sum rule relating the mass of the target to the twist-3 PDF e(x)e(x). Moreover, we supplement our analytical results with numerical calculations.

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@article{arxiv.2105.07282,
  title  = {Burkhardt-Cottingham-type sum rules for light-cone and quasi-PDFs},
  author = {Shohini Bhattacharya and Andreas Metz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.07282},
  year   = {2022}
}

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Version accepted for PRD: Minor additions to text; 38 pages, 2 figures

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