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We study the evolution of parton distributions down to low scales by considering several of their Mellin moments. For the initial conditions, we use a broad array of current parton density fits. Confirming earlier findings in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-08 Markus Diehl , Pascal Stienemeier

We derive the first-ever small-$x$ expression for the inclusive gluon production cross section in the central rapidity region of the longitudinally polarized proton-proton collisions. The cross section depends on the polarizations of both…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-12 Yuri V. Kovchegov , Ming Li

Using the equations of motion of QCD and Lorentz invariance relations, we show a new, more direct way of obtaining the decomposition of the proton's quark transverse angular momentum into its spin and orbital components. The new…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-30 Osamah Alkasassbeh , Abha Rajan , Michael Engelhardt , Simonetta Liuti

We perform analysis of the small x non-linear evolution equation formulated in momentum space supplemented by higher order terms. The equation is defined in wide range of transverse momentum and longitudinal momentum fraction extending…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-03 Krzysztof Kutak , Wanchen Li , Anna Stasto , Robert Straka

With the advent of very powerful particle accelerators, such as RHIC and the LHC, it becomes possible to study QCD in high energy collisions, in which the gluon content of the proton or nucleus is probed and its density becomes often large…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-13 Pieter Taels

We present the polarized parton distribution functions from a QCD analysis of the worldwide polarized deep inelastic scattering data, based on the dynamical parton distribution model. All the sea quarks and gluons are dynamically generated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-23 Chengdong Han , Gang Xie , Rong Wang , Xurong Chen

A theoretical prediction is given for the spin and orbital angular momentum distribution functions of the nucleon within the framework of an effective quark model of QCD, i.e. the chiral quark soliton model. An outstanding feature of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Wakamatsu , T. Watabe

In the early stages of relativistic heavy-ion collisions, the momentum distribution of the quark-gluon plasma is anisotropic, leading to instabilities in the system due to chromomagnetic plasma modes. In this work, we consider the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-03 Sumit , Jai Parkash , Santosh K. Das , Najmul Haque

Whether quark- and gluon-initiated jets are modified differently by the quark-gluon plasma produced in heavy-ion collisions is a long-standing question that has thus far eluded a definitive experimental answer. A crucial complication for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-03 Jasmine Brewer , Jesse Thaler , Andrew P. Turner

Determination of the orbital angular momentum of the proton is a difficult but important part of understanding fundamental structure. Insight can be gained from suitable models of the gluon asymmetry applied to the Jz = 1/2 sum rule. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-01-09 Gordon P. Ramsey , Yev Binder , Dennis Sivers

We report a quantum mechanical method for calculating the momentum distributions of constituent atoms of polyatomic molecules in rotational-vibrational eigenstates. Application of the present theory to triatomic molecules in the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-06-10 Sota Sakaguchi , Yasuhiro Ohshima , Masakazu Yamazaki

Recently, a new device to measure the Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) electronic spectrum after elastic/inelastic scattering in a transmission electron microscope has been introduced. We modified the theoretical framework needed to describe…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-05-28 Matteo Zanfrognini , Enzo Rotunno , Stefano Frabboni , Alicia Sit , Ebrahim Karimi , Ulrich Hohenester , Vincenzo Grillo

The physics of orbital angular momentum (OAM) carrying light has been well-defined since the 1990s. Leveraging its physical phenomena has become a significant focus in various areas of research. For instance, OAM is applied in hybrid…

Optics · Physics 2025-08-08 Junsu Kim , Jiyeon Baek , Hyunchae Chun , Seung Ryong Park

We investigate the different decompositions of the angular momentum in QCD for a relativistic spin $1/2$ composite state, namely a quark dressed with a gluon. We use light-front Hamiltonian perturbation theory, and in the light-front gauge,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-15 Ravi Singh , Sudeep Saha , Asmita Mukherjee , Nilmani Mathur

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

By analyzing experimental data on semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering off longitudinally polarized targets, we extract the transverse momentum dependence of the quark helicity distribution, i.e., the difference between the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-27 Alessandro Bacchetta , Alessia Bongallino , Matteo Cerutti , Marco Radici , Lorenzo Rossi

A new picture is given of generalized parton distributions probed in experiments in which the probe scale $Q^{2}$ and the momentum transfer $\DD^{2}$ are well separated. Application of this picture to the $Q^{2}$ dependence of the form…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 John P. Ralston , Roman V. Buniy , Pankaj Jain

The investigation of orbital angular momentum (OAM) of delocalised Bloch electrons has advanced our understanding of magnetic, transport, and optical phenomena in crystals, drawing widespread interest across various materials science…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-08 Rhonald Burgos Atencia , Amit Agarwal , Dimitrie Culcer

We study the small-$x$ asymptotics of unpolarized generalized parton distributions (GPDs) and generalized transverse momentum distributions (GTMDs). Unlike the previous works in the literature, we consider the case of non-zero (but small)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-07 Yuri V. Kovchegov , M. Gabriel Santiago , Huachen Sun

In this paper, we use momentum sum rule to compute the fractions of momentum carried by quarks and gluons in a self-similarity based model of proton. Comparison of the results with the prediction of QCD asymptotics is also made.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-15 Akbari Jahan , D K Choudhury