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Quark and Glue Momenta and Angular Momenta in the Proton --- a Lattice Calculation

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2012-08-28 v1 High Energy Physics - Lattice Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We report a complete calculation of the quark and glue momenta and angular momenta in the proton. These include the quark contributions from both the connected and disconnected insertions. The calculation is carried out on a 163×2416^3 \times 24 quenched lattice at β=6.0\beta = 6.0 and for Wilson fermions with κ=0.154,0.155,\kappa = 0.154, 0.155, and 0.1555 which correspond to pion masses at 650, 538, and 478 MeV. The quark loops are calculated with Z4Z_4 noise and signal-to-noise is improved further with unbiased subtractions. The glue operator is comprised of gauge-field tensors constructed from the overlap operator. The uu and dd quark momentum/angular momentum fraction is 0.66(5)/0.72(5), the strange momentum/angular momentum fraction is 0.024(6)/0.023(7), and that of the glue is 0.31(6)/0.25(8). The orbital angular momenta of the quarks are obtained from subtracting the angular momentum component from its corresponding spin. As a result, the quark orbital angular momentum constitutes 0.50(2) of the proton spin, with almost all it coming from the disconnected insertion. The quark spin carries a fraction 0.25(12) and glue carries a fraction 0.25(8) of the total proton spin.

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@article{arxiv.1203.6388,
  title  = {Quark and Glue Momenta and Angular Momenta in the Proton --- a Lattice Calculation},
  author = {K. F. Liu and M. Deka and T. Doi and Y. B. Yang and B. Chakraborty and Y. Chen and S. J. Dong and T. Draper and M. Gong and H. W. Lin and D. Mankame and N. Mathur and T. Streuer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1203.6388},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

11 pages, 8 figures, talk presented at the 2011 Lattice conference, Lake Tahoe, California