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Sivers Mechanism for Gluons

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-10 v1

Abstract

We study T-odd gauge invariantly defined T-odd unintegrated gluon densities in QCD. The average \perp momentum of the gluons in a \perp polarized nucleon can be nonzero due to the Sivers mechanism. However, we find that the sum of the transverse momenta due to the Sivers mechanism from gluons and all quark flavors combined vanishes, i.e. <k,g>+q<k,q>=0<{\bf k_{\perp,g}}> + \sum_q < {\bf k_{\perp,q}}> =0.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0402014,
  title  = {Sivers Mechanism for Gluons},
  author = {Matthias Burkardt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0402014},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4 pages, 1 figure, revtex