Hadron Tomography
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2008-11-26 v1
Abstract
Generalized parton distributions describe the distribution of partons in the transverse plane. For transversely polarized quarks and/or nucleons, these impact parameter dependent parton distributions are not axially symmetric. These transverse distortions can be related to spin-orbit correlations as well as to (intuitively) to transverse single-spin asymmetries, allowing novel insights into quark orbital angular momentum from measurements of the Sivers and Boer-Mulders functions.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0611256,
title = {Hadron Tomography},
author = {Matthias Burkardt},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0611256},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
6 pages, invited talk, SPIN2006, Kyoto, October 2006