16–20 Apr 2018
Kobe University Convention Centre / Kobe International Conference Center
Asia/Tokyo timezone

Orbital angular momentum distributions at small-x

17 Apr 2018, 12:35
20m
504

504

WG6: Spin and 3D structure WG6: Spin and 3D structure

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)

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