Proton mass decomposition: naturalness and interpretations
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2021-03-09 v2 High Energy Physics - Lattice
Nuclear Experiment
Nuclear Theory
Abstract
I discuss the scope and naturalness of the proton mass decomposition (or sum rule) published in PRL74, 1071 (1995) and answer a few criticisms that appeared recently in the literature, focusing particularly on its interpretation and the quantum anomalous energy contribution. I comment on the so-called frame-independent or invariant-mass decomposition from the trace of the energy-momentum tensor. I stress the importance of measuring the quantum anomalous energy through experiments. Finally, I point out a large discrepancy in the scalar radius of the nucleon extracted from vector-meson productions and lattice QCD calculations.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2102.07830,
title = {Proton mass decomposition: naturalness and interpretations},
author = {Xiangdong Ji},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.07830},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
Updated with mass radius discussions, 10 pages, no figure