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Gluon Wigner distributions in a light-cone spectator model

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2023-12-14 v1

Abstract

We study the gluon Wigner distributions of the proton which are the phase-space distributions containing the most general one-parton information. Using the proton wave functions deduced from a light-cone spectator model that contains the gluonic degree of freedom, we calculate the Wigner distributions of the unpolarized and longitudinally polarized gluon inside the unpolarized/longitudinally polarized proton via the Fock-state overlap representation, respectively. We present the numerical results of the transverse Wigner distributions in which the longitudinal momentum fraction is integrated out. The mixed Wigner distributions as functions of byb_y and kxk_x are also presented. We also provide the canonical gluon orbital angular momentum and spin-orbit correlations deduced from the gluon Wigner distribution.

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@article{arxiv.2312.07997,
  title  = {Gluon Wigner distributions in a light-cone spectator model},
  author = {Chentao Tan and Zhun Lu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.07997},
  year   = {2023}
}

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12 pages, 3 figures

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