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The 3-dimensional distribution of quarks in momentum space

Alessandro Bacchetta, Filippo Delcarro, Cristian Pisano, Marco Radici

2022Physics Letters B39 citationsDOIOpen Access PDF

Abstract

We present the distribution of unpolarized quarks in a transversely polarized proton in three-dimensional momentum space. Our results are based on the extractions of the unpolarized and Sivers transverse momentum dependent parton distributions (TMDs) in a fully consistent TMD framework.

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PartonPhysicsQuarkParticle physicsPosition and momentum spaceMomentum (technical analysis)ProtonSpace (punctuation)Distribution (mathematics)Nuclear physicsQuantum electrodynamicsQuantum mechanicsMathematicsPhilosophyLinguisticsEconomicsFinanceMathematical analysisParticle physics theoretical and experimental studiesQuantum Chromodynamics and Particle InteractionsHigh-Energy Particle Collisions Research