Instanton effects in twist-3 generalized parton distributions

The instanton vacuum picture is used to study hadronic matrix elements of the twist-3 (dimension-4, spin-1) QCD operators measuring the quark spin density and spin-orbit correlations. The QCD operators are converted to effective operators in the low-energy effective theory emerging after chiral symm...

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Published in:Physics letters. B 2023-12, Vol.848
Main Authors: Kim, June-Young, Weiss, Christian
Format: Article
Language:English
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PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
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Summary:The instanton vacuum picture is used to study hadronic matrix elements of the twist-3 (dimension-4, spin-1) QCD operators measuring the quark spin density and spin-orbit correlations. The QCD operators are converted to effective operators in the low-energy effective theory emerging after chiral symmetry breaking, in a systematic approach based on the diluteness of the instanton medium and the 1/Nc expansion. The instanton fields induce spin-flavor-dependent "potential" terms in the effective operators, complementing the "kinetic" terms from the quark field momenta. As a result, the effective operators obey the same equation-of-motion relations as the original QCD operators. The spin-orbit correlations are qualitatively different from naive quark model expectations.
ISSN:0370-2693
1873-2445