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Generalized Wandzura Wilczek Relations and Orbital Angular Momentum

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2018-02-22 v1

Abstract

New Lorentz Invariance Relations (LIRs) were presented between twist-three Generalized Parton Distributions (GPDs) and transverse momentum, kTk_T, moments of twist-two Generalized Transverse Momentum-Dependent Distributions (GTMDs). By implementing both these LIRs and the QCD Equations of Motion in the quark quark correlation function, we generated a new series of Wandzura Wilczek (WW) relations in the off-forward sector. Two of these WW relations take on a particularly interesting physical meaning in that they provide a clear interpretation of the QCD structure of Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) in the nucleon. In particular, they provide a solution to the outstanding puzzle of how OAM could be simultaneously described by twist-two GTMDs and twist-three GPDs. Additional relations were discussed, in particular, for the helicity configurations that can be detected analyzing specific spin asymmetries: one corresponding to a longitudinally polarized quark in an unpolarized proton, associated with spin-orbit correlations, and one for transverse proton polarization, as a generalization of the relation obeyed by the g2g_2 structure function; finally, we defined a relation connecting the off-forward extension of the Sivers function to an off-forward Qiu-Sterman term.

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@article{arxiv.1802.07688,
  title  = {Generalized Wandzura Wilczek Relations and Orbital Angular Momentum},
  author = {Simonetta Liuti and Michael Engelhardt and Abha Rajan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.07688},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

5 pages, talk presented at QCD Evolution 2017, 22-16 May 2017, Jefferson Lab, Newport News, VA-USA