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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 x3x^3 and x4x^4 moments of twist-3 parton distribution functions (PDFs). While no semi-classical interpretation for the higher moments of gT(x)g_T(x) and e(x)e(x) was find, the x3x^3 moment of the chirally odd spin-dependent twist-3 PDF hL3(x)h_L^3(x) 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}
}