Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2011-11-21
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
26 pages, 4 figures
Scientific paper
We investigate the quark orbital angular momentum of the nucleon in the absence of gauge-field degrees of freedom, by using the concept of the Wigner distribution and the light-cone wave functions of the Fock state expansion of the nucleon. The quark orbital angular momentum is obtained from the phase-space average of the orbital angular momentum operator weighted with the Wigner distribution of unpolarized quarks in a longitudinally polarized nucleon. We also derive the light-cone wave function representation of the orbital angular momentum. In particular, we perform an expansion in the nucleon Fock state space and decompose the orbital angular momentum into the $N$-parton state contributions. Explicit expressions are presented in terms of the light-cone wave functions of the three-quark Fock state. Numerical results for the up and down quark orbital angular momenta of the proton are shown in the light-cone constituent quark model and the light-cone chiral quark-soliton model.
Lorce' C.
Pasquini Barbara
Xiong Xiang
Yuan Fang-Fang
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