Comment on 'Controversy concerning the definition of quark and gluon angular momentum' by Elliot Leader

Huey Wen Lin, Keh Fei Liu

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Abstract

It is argued by the author that the canonical form of the quark energy-momentum tensor with a partial derivative instead of the covariant derivative is the correct definition for the quark momentum and angular momentum fraction of the nucleon in covariant quantization. Although it is not manifestly gauge-invariant, its matrix elements in the nucleon will be nonvanishing and are gauge-invariant. We test this idea in the path-integral quantization by calculating correlation functions on the lattice with a gauge-invariant nucleon interpolation field and replacing the gauge link in the quark lattice momentum operator with unity, which corresponds to the partial derivative in the continuum. We find that the ratios of three-point to two-point functions are zero within errors for both the u and d quarks, contrary to the case without setting the gauge links to unity.

Original languageEnglish
Article number058901
JournalPhysical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Volume85
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 15 2012

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics
  • Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

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