Thursday, August 16, 2012

1208.3065 (Cedric Lorce et al.)

Wigner distributions and quark orbital angular momentum    [PDF]

Cedric Lorce, Barbara Pasquini
We discuss the quark phase-space or Wigner distributions of the nucleon which combine in a single picture all the information contained in the generalized parton distributions and the transverse-momentum dependent parton distributions. In particular, we present results for the distribution of unpolarized quarks in a longitudinally polarized nucleon obtained in a light-front constituent quark model. We show how the quark orbital angular momentum can be extracted from the Wigner distributions and compare it with alternative definitions.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.3065

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