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T-odd gluon distribution functions in a spectator model

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2024-02-28 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment Nuclear Experiment Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We present a model calculation of T-odd transverse-momentum-dependent distributions of gluons in the nucleon. The model is based on the assumption that a nucleon can emit a gluon, and what remains after the emission is treated as a single spectator particle. This spectator particle is considered to be on-shell, but its mass is allowed to take a continuous range of values, described by a spectral function. The final-state interaction that is necessary to generate T-odd functions is modeled as the exchange of a single gluon between the spectator and the outgoing parton.

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@article{arxiv.2402.17556,
  title  = {T-odd gluon distribution functions in a spectator model},
  author = {Alessandro Bacchetta and Francesco Giovanni Celiberto and Marco Radici},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.17556},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

32 pages, 7 (multiple) figures, 2 appendices with details of calculations

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