Unravelling the physical meaning of the Jaffe-Manohar decomposition of the nucleon spin
arXiv:1607.04018 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.94.056004
Abstract
A general consensus now is that there are two physically inequivalent complete decompositions of the nucleon spin, i.e. the decomposition of the canonical type and that of mechanical type. The well-known Jaffe-Manohar decomposition is of the former type. Unfortunately, there is a wide-spread misbelief that this decomposition matches the partonic picture, which states that motion of quarks in the nucleon is approximately free. In the present monograph, we reveal that this understanding is not necessarily correct and that the Jaffe-Manohar decomposition is not such a decomposition, which natively reflects the intrinsic (or static) orbital angular momentum structure of the nucleon.
LaTeX 38pages, 2 eps figures, A slightly modified version to appear Physical Review D
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