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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.

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@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

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