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arxiv: 1704.08557 · v1 · pith:DUOE74UKnew · submitted 2017-04-27 · ✦ hep-ph

Spatial distribution of angular momentum inside the nucleon

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keywords angularlevelmomentumdensitydistributioninsidenucleonspatial
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We discuss in detail the spatial distribution of angular momentum inside the nucleon. We show that the discrepancies between different definitions originate from terms that integrate to zero. Even though these terms can safely be dropped at the integrated level, they have to be taken into account at the density level. Using the scalar diquark model, we illustrate our results and, for the first time, check explicitly that the equivalence between kinetic and canonical orbital angular momentum persists at the density level, as expected in a system without gauge degrees of freedom.

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