Speaker
Yoshitaka Hatta
(Japan/Yukawa Institute)
Description
We study the orbital angular momentum (OAM) of quarks and gluons in the nucleon in the small-x region. We argue, in two different ways, that the gluon OAM significantly cancels the gluon helicity distribution at small-x. A similar cancellation occurs also in the quark sector.
Primary author
Yoshitaka Hatta
(Japan/Yukawa Institute)