Transverse-momentum-dependent parton distribution functions up to twist 4 for spin-1 hadrons

Abstract

We show possible transverse-momentum-dependent parton distribution functions (TMDs) for spin-1 hadrons including twist-3 and 4 functions in addition to the leading twist-2 ones by investigating all the possible decomposition of a quark correlation function in the Lorentz-invariant way. The Hermiticity and parity invariance are imposed in the decomposition; however, the time-reversal invariance is not used due to an active role of gauge links in the TMDs. Therefore, there exist time-reversal-odd functions in addition to the time-reversal even ones in the TMDs. We list all the functions up to twist-4 level because there were missing terms associated with the lightcone vector $n$ in previous works on the twist-2 part and there was no correlation-function study in the twist-3 and 4 parts for spin-1 hadrons. We show that 40 TMDs exist in the tensor-polarized spin-1 hadron in twists 2, 3, and 4. Some expressions of twist-2 structure functions are modified from previous derivations due to the new terms with $n$, and we find 30 new structure functions in twists 3 and 4 in this work. Since time-reversal-odd terms of the collinear correlation function should vanish after integrals over the partonic transverse momentum, we obtain new sum rules for the time-reversal-odd structure functions, $\int d^2{k}_T{h}_{LT}=\int d^2{k}_T{h}_{LL}=\int d^2{k}_T{h}_{3LL}=0$. In addition, we indicate that new transverse-momentum-dependent fragmentation functions exist in tensor-polarized spin-1 hadrons. The TMDs are rare observables to find explicit color degrees of freedom in terms of color flow, which cannot be usually measured because the color is confined in hadrons.

18 pages, 12 eps figures and tables, typos in abstract and summary are corrected

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