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Nucleon Momentum Decomposition in QCD

Nuclear Theory 2011-05-02 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Experiment

Abstract

~Based on the gauge invariant quark canonical momentum we construct two theoretically possible decompositions of nucleon momentum to those of quarks and gluons. We predict that either 6% or 21% of nucleon momentum is carried by gluons, depending on what type of gluons are in nucleons. We clarify the existing confusions on this problem and discuss the physical implications of our result on the proton spin crisis problem.

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@article{arxiv.1102.1130,
  title  = {Nucleon Momentum Decomposition in QCD},
  author = {Y. M. Cho and Mo-Lin Ge and D. G. Pak and Pengming Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1102.1130},
  year   = {2011}
}
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