Transverse Force on Transversely Polarized Quarks in Longitudinally Polarized Nucleons
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2016-12-21 v1
Abstract
We study the semi-classical interpretation of the and moments of twist-3 parton distribution functions (PDFs). While no semi-classical interpretation for the higher moments of and was find, the moment of the chirally odd spin-dependent twist-3 PDF can be related to the longitudinal gradient of the transverse force on transversely polarized quarks in longitudinally polarized nucleons in a DIS experiment. We discuss how this result relates to the torque acting on a quark in the same experiment. This has further implications for comparisons between tha Jaffe-Manohar and the Ji decompositions of the nucleon spin.
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@article{arxiv.1610.01166,
title = {Transverse Force on Transversely Polarized Quarks in Longitudinally Polarized Nucleons},
author = {Manal Abdallah and Matthias Burkardt},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.01166},
year = {2016}
}