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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 Z2Z_2 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 0.30±0.070.30 \pm 0.07. From this and the quark spin content we deduce the quark orbital angular momentum to be 0.17±0.060.17 \pm 0.06 which is 34\sim 34% of the proton spin. We further predict that the gluon angular momentum to be 0.20±0.070.20 \pm 0.07, i. e. \sim 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

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