Parton Decomposition of Nucleon Spin and Momentum: Gluons from Dressed Quarks

Peter C. Tandy

doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2023.137972

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Parton Decomposition of Nucleon Spin and Momentum: Gluons from Dressed Quarks

arXiv:2302.07473 · doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2023.137972

Abstract

The lowest two Mellin moments of hadronic Generalized Parton Distributions are explored within a model that allows investigation of the inter-related quark and gluon contributions. For light quarks their dynamical connection is strong due to quark dressing. Our principal focus is the angular momentum $J$ of the nucleon. This work employs and extends dynamical insights obtained from our recent model results for quark and gluon momentum fractions $⟨ x ⟩_{q/g}$ in both pion and nucleon. The employed model is based on the Rainbow-Ladder truncation of the Dyson-Schwinger equations of QCD. The special case of a 1-loop treatment of a single hadronic quark is used to motivate several insights and obtain initial estimates such as the Wilson line correction to the established Landau gauge model ( $- 7%$ for both $J_{q}$ and $⟨ x ⟩_{q}$ ), and the "binding gluon" contribution to $⟨ x ⟩_{g}$ ( $\leq 10%$ ). We obtain the proton $J$ within 1\% after inclusion of the pion cloud mechanism to produce the sea. The gluon second Mellin moments of the proton reflect similar dynamics; ( $⟨ x ⟩_{g}$ , $J_{g}$ ) are (26\% , 24\%) at model scale, and (40\%, 38\%) at $2$ GeV. We also find that $J_{tot}$ is shared almost equally between the total orbital and total intrinsic spin contributions.

arXiv comment8 pages, 5 figures. Submitted for publication. This version clarifies and qualifies the approach and methods, and corrects typing errors

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