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Generalized parton distributions with helicity flip

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-01-07 v1

Abstract

We show that for both quarks and gluons there are eight generalized parton distributions in the proton: four which conserve parton helicity and four which do not. We explain why time reversal invariance does not reduce this number from eight to six, as previously assumed in the literature.

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0101335,
  title  = {Generalized parton distributions with helicity flip},
  author = {M. Diehl},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0101335},
  year   = {2009}
}

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20 pages, 2 figures

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