Instanton contribution to the Sivers function
Abstract
We study the Sivers function for valence u and d quarks in the proton within the instanton model for QCD vacuum, adopting the MIT bag model wave functions for quarks. Within approaches based on perturbative one-gluon final state interactions a non-zero value of the Sivers function is related to the presence of both S and P wave components in quark wave functions. We show that the instanton-induced chromomagnetic, nonperturbative interaction leads to very specific spin-spin correlations between the struck and spectator quarks, resulting in a non-trivial flavour dependence of the Sivers function. Comparison of the obtained Sivers functions with phenomenological parameterizations is discussed.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0606238,
title = {Instanton contribution to the Sivers function},
author = {I. O. Cherednikov and U. D'Alesio and N. I. Kochelev and F. Murgia},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0606238},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
1+12 pages, 4 ps figures; v2: few references and one sentence added in the introduction; final version published in Phys. Lett. B