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PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume 108, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.108.094002
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We address the proton spin puzzle by using a fully relativistic and nonperturbative approach based on a light front quantized Hamiltonian with quantum chromodynamics (QCD) input. We calculate the effects of incorporating a dynamical gluon on the proton's gluon densities, helicity distribution, and orbital angular momentum, and predict the contributions of gluon helicity and orbital angular momentum to the proton's spin in low-momentum transfer experiments. Our approach also provides a good quality description of the proton's quark distribution functions following QCD scale evolution.
We address the proton spin puzzle with a fully relativistic and nonperturbative approach based on a light front quantized Hamiltonian with quantum chromodynamics (QCD) input. From this, we calculate the effects from incorporating a dynamical gluon on the proton's gluon densities, helicity distribution, and orbital angular momentum that constitute the proton spin sum rule. We predict about 26% of the proton's spin is carried by the gluon's helicity and about 1.3% by its orbital angular momentum in low-momentum transfer experiments. Our approach also provides a good quality description of the proton's quark distribution functions following QCD scale evolution.
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