Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2011-07-26
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
24 pages, 3 figures
Scientific paper
Measurements involving the gluon spin density, Delta G=G++ - G+-, can play an important role in the quantitative understanding of proton structure. To demonstrate this, we show that the shape of the gluon asymmetry, A(x,t)=Delta G(x,t)/G(x,t), contains significant dynamical information about non-perturbative spin-orbit effects. It is instructive to use a separation A(x,t)=A_0^epsilon(x)+epsilon(x,t), where A_0^epsilon(x) is an approximately scale-invariant form that can be calculated within a given factorization prescription from the measured distributions Delta q(x,t), q(x,t) and G(x,t). Applying this separation with the J_z=1/2 sum rule provides a convenient way to determine the total amount of orbital angular momentum generated by mechanisms associated with confinement and chiral dynamics. The results are consistent with alternate non-perturbative approaches to the determination of orbital angular momentum in the proton. Our studies help to specify the accuracy that future measurements should achieve to constrain theoretical models for nucleon structure.
Binder Yevgeny
Ramsey Gordon P.
Sivers Dennis
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