Quark Orbital Angular Momentum from Lattice QCD
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2016-09-06 v1 High Energy Physics - Lattice
Nuclear Theory
Abstract
We calculate the quark orbital angular momentum of the nucleon from the quark energy-momentum tensor form factors on the lattice. The disconnected insertion is estimated stochastically which employs the noise with an unbiased subtraction. This reduced the error by a factor of 4 with negligible overhead. The total quark contribution to the proton spin is found to be . From this and the quark spin content we deduce the quark orbital angular momentum to be which is % of the proton spin. We further predict that the gluon angular momentum to be , i. e. 40% of the proton spin is due to the glue.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9912289,
title = {Quark Orbital Angular Momentum from Lattice QCD},
author = {N. Mathur and S. J. Dong and K. F. Liu and L. Mankiewicz and N. C. Mukhopadhyay},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9912289},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
4 pages, 7 figures