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More on the relation between the two physically inequivalent decompositions of the nucleon spin

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-03-02 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment Nuclear Theory

Abstract

The recent controversy on the nucleon spin decomposition problem is critically overviewed. We argue that there exist two and only two physically inequivalent gauge-invariant decompositions of the longitudinal nucleon spin, contrary to the rapidly spreading view in the QCD spin physics community that there are infinitely many decompositions of the nucleon spin.

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@article{arxiv.1304.1589,
  title  = {More on the relation between the two physically inequivalent decompositions of the nucleon spin},
  author = {Masashi Wakamatsu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1304.1589},
  year   = {2022}
}

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Invited Talk at the Third Workshop on the QCD Structure of the Nucleon (QCD N'12), Bilbao, Spain, 22-26 October 2012