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Parameterization of the quark-quark correlator of a spin-1/2 hadron
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Submitted 15 Apr 2005 · 43 references
Pith's verdict: A solid, citable reference for the gauge-invariant quark-quark correlator; the completeness claim is under-argued but the structures themselves look right.
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The paper claims
The quark correlator of a spin-1/2 hadron needs 32 Dirac structures, not 12, once the gauge link is kept
The reading
What carries the argument
The machinery is a constrained Dirac basis plus a projection. Hermiticity, Eq. (4), and parity, Eq. (5), are imposed on $Phi$, and the Schouten-type identity of Eq. (6) is used to remove redundant contractions of the Levi-Civita tensor, leaving thirty-two independent matrix structures. Each is dressed with a scalar amplitude carrying the right mass dimension, with factors of $M$ inserted so all amplitudes have the same dimension. The bridge to observables is the set of Dirac traces $Phi^{[Gamma]} = tfrac{1}{2}mathrm{Tr}(Phi,Gamma)$ evaluated after Sudakov decomposition of $P$, $k$ and $S$ in terms of $n_+$, $n_-$ and transverse vectors; the twist of each trace is fixed by its power of $P^+$. A useful internal check the authors emphasise is that the number of resulting parton distributions, thirty-two, matches the number of amplitudes, whereas dropping the $n_-$ terms would leave more functions than amplitudes and hence spurious Lorentz-invariance relations between them.
Extended reading notes
Core claim
The central claim is that the complete gauge-invariant quark-quark correlator of a spin-1/2 hadron is the thirty-two-term expression of Eq. (7), in which twelve amplitudes $A_i$ multiply structures built only from $P$, $k$ and $S$, and twenty amplitudes $B_i$ multiply structures that also contain the light-cone vector $n_-$ specifying the Wilson line. The $B$-terms are not optional decoration: they are what survives of the correlator once colour gauge invariance is imposed, and the authors argue that any model of non-perturbative QCD without gluonic degrees of freedom can produce only the $A$-terms. Integrating over the quark minus-momentum and expanding in the target momentum gives the transverse-momentum-dependent correlator, Eqs. (14)–(25), with eight twist-2 functions, sixteen twist-3 functions and eight twist-4 functions. At twist-3, eight of the sixteen are time-reversal odd, and four of those, $e_T^{~perp}$, $f_T^{~perp}$, $f_T^{~perpprime}$ and $g^perp$, appear only because the gauge link is retained; the abstract singles out two of them as genuinely new at this order. The authors also record that integrating over $k_T$ forces three of these to vanish or to cancel in sums, Eqs. (27)–(29), so the extra structures are invisible in the collinear limit.
Load-bearing premise
The claim that Eq. (7) is the complete decomposition rests on the assertion that hermiticity, parity and the Schouten identity remove every redundancy among Dirac structures, and the only check offered is that thirty-two amplitudes happen to match thirty-two transverse-momentum-dependent functions.
Editorial extensions
If this is right
- Transverse-momentum-dependent semi-inclusive DIS and unintegrated Drell-Yan cross sections at twist-3 acquire extra independent spin structures: $e_T^{~perp}$ enters the double-polarised cross section $sigma_{LT}$ together with the Collins function, while $f_T^{~perp}$ and $f_T^{~perpprime}$ enter $sigma_{UT}$ together with the unpolarised fragmentation function $D_1$.
- The Lorentz-invariance relations that link forward twist-3 distributions to moments of $k_T$-dependent distributions are not identities of QCD; they fail once the gauge link is included, so any phenomenological use of them is an approximation whose error must be estimated.
- The collinear correlator is recovered by $k_T$ integration only if $int d^2vec{k}_T,e_L = 0$, $int d^2vec{k}_T,vec{k}_T^2(f_T^{~perp}+f_T^{~perpprime}) = 0$ and $int d^2vec{k}_T,h = 0$, which gives model builders concrete sum rules to satisfy.
- The same decomposition carries over to the fragmentation correlator, so the count of independent twist-3 fragmentation functions should be revised in parallel with the distribution case.
Reading between the lines
- Because the extra structures are pure gauge-link artefacts, their size should track the strength of the final-state or initial-state interaction in a given process; comparing the same T-odd function extracted from DIS and from Drell-Yan would test the sign-reversal pattern expected from the opposite link directions.
- The authors' choice to flip the sign of $g^perp$ relative to an earlier reference is a convention, not a measurement, so any phenomenology quoting $g^perp$ needs to state which sign convention is in use before numbers are compared.
- If the thirty-two-structure count is exact, lattice or model calculations of the full correlator should reproduce the matching count of thirty-two independent functions; a mismatch would be a clean diagnostic of either an incomplete basis or an overlooked constraint.
- The absence of a proof of exhaustiveness suggests a natural formal question: whether the algebra of Dirac structures modulo the hermiticity, parity and Schouten relations can be shown to have dimension thirty-two by a representation-theoretic argument rather than by enumeration.
Original abstract
The general parameterization of the quark-quark correlation function for a spin-1/2 hadron is considered. The presence of the Wilson line ensuring color gauge invariance of the correlator induces structures that were not given explicitly in the existing literature. In particular, the general form of the transverse momentum dependent correlator entering various hard scattering processes is derived. In this case two new time-reversal odd parton distributions appear at the twist-3 level.
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The abstract, sentence by sentence
The general parameterization of the quark-quark correlation function for a spin-1/2 hadron is considered. The presence of the Wilson line ensuring color gauge invariance of the correlator induces structures that were not given explicitly in the existing literature. In particular, the general form of the transverse momentum dependent correlator entering various hard scattering processes is derived. In this case two new time-reversal odd parton distributions appear at the twist-3 level.
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| s0 | The general parameterization of the quark-quark correlation function for a spin-1/2 hadron is considered. | contribution 0.54 | 0.59 | 0.07 | asserted 0.86 |
| s1 | The presence of the Wilson line ensuring color gauge invariance of the correlator induces structures that were not given explicitly in the existing literature. | gap 0.74 | 0.40 | 0.17 | asserted 1.00 |
| s2 | In particular, the general form of the transverse momentum dependent correlator entering various hard scattering processes is derived. | contribution 0.60 | 0.91 | 0.41 | asserted 1.00 |
| s3 | In this case two new time-reversal odd parton distributions appear at the twist-3 level. | result 0.99 | 0.83 | 0.36 | asserted 1.00 |
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References
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51 later papers cite it
1 later paper by other authors is listed below: 1 used its method or tool.
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Parameterized the quark-quark correlator for the Dirac matrix structure Γ=iσ^i-γ_5 as this paper did.
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How the literature uses it
47 arXiv papers cite this in 79 sentences
Papers citing it · 39 sentences without a confident label
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In particular, the conventional approach of distinguishing TMD distributions by their dynamical twist [ref] is inadequate, as it leads to an incomplete basis of operators that becomes evident at NLO, where new types of operators arise.
Transverse momentum dependent factorization for SIDIS at next-to-leading power · Introduction · contest 0.88
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The expansion of this correlator on a basis of Dirac structures can be obtained from the one given in Refs. [ref] for the distribution correlator by replacing the target hadron momentum with the produced hadron momentum, the target mass with the produced hadron mass, by interchanging $n_-$ with $n_+$, and neglecting the structures related to the polarization of the produced hadron: [equation] The amplitudes $A_i$ and $B_i$ are functions of the Lorentz scalars $k ·n_+$, $k ·P$, $k^2$.
On the connection between quark propagation and hadronization · The single-hadron fragmentation correlator · 0.80
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Still to the present day, the state-of-the-art approach to subleading-twist TMD observables is the one of Refs. [ref] , based on a TMD tree-level formalism, which we adopt here.
Semi-Inclusive Deep Inelastic Scattering in Wandzura-Wilczek-type approximation · TMDs, FFs and structure functions · 0.97
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The quark-quark correlator has been parameterized for the Dirac matrix structure $Γ=iσ^i-γ_5$ as [ref] [equation]
Investigation on the higher twist TMD $h_3$ for proton in the light-front quark-diquark model · Quark Correlator and Parameterization · 0.84
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Note that the parameterizations ([ref])-([ref]) are similar to the standard parameterizations for TMD [ref] .
High-energy Operator Product Expansion at sub-eikonal level · Parametrization of the forward matrix elements · 0.91
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Some of these relations such as, e.g, the quark-model Lorentz-invariance relations (qLIRs), are generic in the sense that they hold in quark models which respect Lorentz symmetry and contain no gauge field degrees of freedom [ref] , but are not valid in QCD [ref] .
Quark-model relations among TMDs in the parton model · Quark model relations among TMDs · 0.85
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In the past decade, a mathematical framework has been developed that links information on the confined motion of partons inside a rapidly moving nucleon with transverse momentum dependent parton distribution functions (TMDs) [ref] .
Multidimensional, high precision measurements of beam single spin asymmetries in semi-inclusive $\pi^{+}$ electroproduction off protons in the valence region · Introduction · 0.82
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The 3D nucleon structure in the momentum space is encoded in the so-called transverse momentum dependent distribution and fragmentation functions, TMD PDFs and TMD FFs [ref] .
SIDIS-RC EvGen: a Monte-Carlo event generator of semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering with the lowest-order QED radiative corrections · Introduction and physics motivation · 0.96
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