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The nonperturbative origin of delta-function singularity in the chirally-odd twist-3 distribution function e(x)

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-10 v1 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We analytically prove that the existence of the delta-function singularity in the chirally-odd twist-3 distribution e(x)e(x) of the nucleon is inseparably connected with the nonvanishing quark condensate as a signal of the spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking of the QCD vacuum. This singularity in e(x)e(x), which would be observed as a sizable violation of the 1st moment sum rule, is then interpreted as giving a very rare case that the nontrivial vacuum structure of QCD manifests in an observable of a localized QCD excitation, i.e. the nucleon.

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0303007,
  title  = {The nonperturbative origin of delta-function singularity in the chirally-odd twist-3 distribution function e(x)},
  author = {M. Wakamatsu and Y. Ohnishi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0303007},
  year   = {2009}
}

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9 pages, 1 eps-figure

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