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Total Gluon Helicity from Lattice without Effective Theory Matching

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2024-07-02 v3 High Energy Physics - Lattice Nuclear Experiment Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We propose two approaches for extracting the total gluon helicity contribution to proton spin from lattice QCD, one from local operator matrix elements in a fixed gauge accessible on lattice with feasible renormalization, and the other from gauge-invariant nonlocal gluon correlators. Neither of these approaches requires a matching procedure when converted to the MS scheme. Our proposal resolves a long-standing inconsistency in the literature regarding lattice calculations of the total gluon helicity, and has the potential to greatly facilitate these calculations.

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@article{arxiv.2404.00693,
  title  = {Total Gluon Helicity from Lattice without Effective Theory Matching},
  author = {Zhuoyi Pang and Fei Yao and Jian-Hui Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.00693},
  year   = {2024}
}

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14 pages

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