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Understanding photon TMDs using light-front wave function

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2025-04-03 v1

Abstract

In this work, we try to understand the transverse structure of photon through transverse momentum dependent parton distribution functions (TMDs) in quantum chromodynamics. We calculate all the possible time reversal photon TMDs using light-front wave functions. For this work, we have considered photon as a Fock-state of quark anti-quark pair. All the 99 T-even TMDs have been presented in the overlap and explicit form of light-front wave functions using the helicity amplitudes. We observe that only 33 TMDs are non-zero for the case of a real photon as compared to 88 for virtual photon. We briefly discuss the unpolarized f1(x,k)f_1 (x,\textbf{k}_\perp), longitudinally polarized g1L(x,k2)g_{1L}(x,\textbf{k}^2_\perp), transversly polarized h1(x,k2)h_1(x,\textbf{k}^2_\perp) and tensor polarized f1LL(x,k2)f_{1LL}(x,\textbf{k}^2_\perp) TMDs for both real and virtual photon.

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@article{arxiv.2504.01419,
  title  = {Understanding photon TMDs using light-front wave function},
  author = {Satyajit Puhan and Narinder Kumar and Harleen Dahiya},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.01419},
  year   = {2025}
}

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6 pages. Contribution to the Proceedings for the 12th International Conference on Hard and Electromagnetic Probes of High-Energy Nuclear Collisions (Hard Probes 2024, HP2024) 22-24 September, 2024 held in Nagasaki, DEJIMA MESSE NAGASAKI, in Japan

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