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We suggest a method of constructing gauge invariant quark and gluon distributions that describe an abstract QCD observable and apply this method to analyze angular momentum of a hadron. In addition to the known quark and gluon polarized…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 S. V. Bashinsky , R. L. Jaffe

We calculate the elastic production of dijets from electron collisions with a longitudinally polarized proton target at small values of the Bjorken $x$ variable. Building on the pioneering proposals of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-18 Yuri V. Kovchegov , Brandon Manley

We discuss the general formalism for the calculation in light-cone quark models of the fully unintegrated, off-diagonal quark-quark correlator of the nucleon. The corresponding distributions in impact parameter space are the Wigner or…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-10 Cédric Lorcé , Barbara Pasquini

The emergence of an orbital angular momentum (OAM) response to a charge current holds promise for technological applications, allowing electrical control of magnetization dynamics. Often, the OAM current is invoked in explaining…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-12 Niels Henrik Aase , Erik Wegner Hodt , Karl Bergson Hallberg , Asle Sudbø , Jacob Linder

We study the orbital angular momentum contribution to the spin structure of the proton. It is well known that the quark and gluon spin contributions do not add up to the proton spin. We motivate the connection between the Generalized…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-02-02 Abha Rajan , Simonetta Liuti

The typical transverse momentum of a quark in the proton is a basic property of any QCD based model of nucleon structure. However, calculations in phenomenological models typically give rather small values of transverse momenta, which are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-01 A. I. Signal , F. G. Cao

The $\sin(2\phi)$ azimuthal angular correlation between the transverse momenta of the scattered electron and the recoil proton in the $ep\to e^\prime p^\prime \pi^0$ process provides a probe for quark orbital angular momentum. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-22 Chentao Tan , Zhun Lu

We study the connection between the quark orbital angular momentum and the pretzelosity transverse-momentum dependent parton distribution function. We discuss the origin of this relation in quark models, identifying as key ingredient for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-03-23 B. Pasquini , C. Lorce'

The spin and orbital angular momentum carried by different quark flavors in the nucleon are calculated in the SU(3) chiral quark model with symmetry-breaking. The model is extended to all octet and decuplet baryons. In this model, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 X. Song

We analyze the proton electromagnetic form factor ratio $R(Q^{2})=QF_2(Q^{2})/F_1(Q^{2})$ as a function of momentum transfer $Q^{2}$ within perturbative QCD. We find that the prediction for $R(Q^{2})$ at large momentum transfer $Q$ depends…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Pankaj Jain , John P. Ralston

In this work, an explicit formula is deduced for identifying the orbital angular moment (OAM) of vectorial vortex with space-variant state of polarization (SOP). Different to scalar vortex, the OAM of vectorial vortex can be attributed to…

Optics · Physics 2018-10-30 Dengke Zhang , Xue Feng , Kaiyu Cui , Fang Liu , Yidong Huang

We investigate the Wigner distributions of $\bar{u}$ and $\bar{d}$ quarks in a proton using the overlap representation within the light cone formalism. Using the light cone wave functions which are obtained from the baryon-meson fluctuation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-30 Xiaoyan Luan , Zhun Lu

We argue that due to Parity constraints, the helicity combination of the purely momentum space counterparts of the Wigner distributions -- the generalized transverse momentum distributions -- that describes the configuration of an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-17 Aurore Courtoy , Gary R. Goldstein , J. Osvaldo Gonzalez Hernandez , Simonetta Liuti , Abha Rajan

We developed a new and unified scheme for describing both quark spin and orbital angular momenta in symmetry-breaking chiral quark model. The loss of quark spin in the chiral splitting processes is compensated by the gain of the orbital…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Xiaotong Song

We study the parametrization of the energy-momentum tensor for the case of a proton in momentum space in terms of gravitational transverse momentum-dependent distributions (TMDs). These gravitational TMDs are investigated with the inclusion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-17 Navpreet Kaur , Shubham Sharma , Abi Jebarson A , Harleen Dahiya

Covariant version of the quark-parton model is studied. Dependence of the structure functions on the 3D quark intrinsic motion is discussed. The important role of the quark orbital momentum, which is a particular case of intrinsic motion,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Petr Zavada

We present the results for the Generalized Transverse Momentum Distribution related to quark Orbital Angular Momentum, {\it i.e.} $F_{14}$, in the MIT bag model. This model has been modified to include the Peierls--Yoccoz projection to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-02-01 A. Courtoy , A. S. Miramontes

Production and manipulation of orbital angular momentum (OAM) of coherent soft x-ray beams is demonstrated utilizing consecutive diffractive optics. OAM addition is observed upon passing the beam through consecutive fork gratings. The OAM…

We study the covariant version of the quark-parton model, in which the general rules of the angular momentum composition are accurately taken into account. We demonstrate how these rules affect the relativistic interplay between the quark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-23 Petr Zavada

We make use of a simple scalar diquark model to study the potential transverse momentum and potential angular momentum, defined as the difference between the Jaffe-Manohar and Ji notions of transverse momentum and orbital angular momentum,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-06-16 David Arturo Amor-Quiroz , Matthias Burkardt , William Focillon , Cédric Lorcé