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Sivers function of sea quarks in the light-cone model

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-07-20 v1

Abstract

We calculate the Sivers function of uˉ\bar{u} and dˉ\bar{d} quarks using the overlap representation within the light-cone formalism. The light-cone wave functions of the proton is obtained in terms of the qˉqB|\bar{q} q B\rangle Fock states motivated by the meson-baryon fluctuation model. We consider the final-state interaction at the level of one gluon exchange. In a simplified scenario, the Sivers function of uˉ\bar{u} and dˉ\bar{d} can be expressed as the convolution of the Sivers function of the pion inside the proton and the unpolarized distribution of qˉ\bar{q} inside the pion. The model parameters are fixed by fitting the unpolarized sea quark distributions to the known parameterizations. We present the numerical results for f1uˉ/p(x,kT2)f_1^{\perp \bar{u}/p}(x,\boldsymbol{k}_T^2) and f1dˉ/p(x,kT2)f_1^{\perp \bar{d}/p}(x,\boldsymbol{k}_T^2). The first transverse moment of the sea quark Sivers functions in our model are find to be negative and the magnitude is about 0.004 at most.

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@article{arxiv.2204.06854,
  title  = {Sivers function of sea quarks in the light-cone model},
  author = {Xiaoyan Luan and Zhun Lu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.06854},
  year   = {2022}
}

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9 pages, figures