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Quark Wigner distributions in a light-cone spectator model

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-06-23 v1

Abstract

We investigate the quark Wigner distributions in a light-cone spectator model. The Wigner distribution, as a quasi-distribution function, provides the most general one-parton information in a hadron. Combining the polarization configurations, unpolarized, longitudinal polarized or transversal polarized, of the quark and the proton, we can define 16 independent Wigner distributions at leading twist. We calculate all these Wigner distributions for the uu quark and the dd quark respectively. In our calculation, both the scalar and the axial-vector spectators are included, and the Melosh-Wigner rotation effects for both the quark and the axial-vector spectator are taken into account. The results provide us a very rich picture of the quark structure in the proton.

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@article{arxiv.1501.07690,
  title  = {Quark Wigner distributions in a light-cone spectator model},
  author = {Tianbo Liu and Bo-Qiang Ma},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1501.07690},
  year   = {2015}
}

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28 pages, 11 figures, version accepted for publication in PRD

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