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Exploring Nucleon Spin Structure at EIC: Theoretical Challenges and Future Directions

Dive into the complexities of nucleon spin structure through lattice QCD and parton physics, presenting a theoretical challenge to the QCD community. Discover how an Electron-Ion Collider can unravel the partonic content of QCD bound states, shedding light on the elusive nature of quark and gluon distributions. Explore the role of transverse polarization, twisted multi-component masses, and the quest for a parton-based understanding of nucleon spin.

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Exploring Nucleon Spin Structure at EIC: Theoretical Challenges and Future Directions

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  1. EIC, Nucleon Spin Structure, Lattice QCD Xiangdong Ji University of Maryland

  2. Outline • EIC and partons • Spin structure of the nucleon • lattice QCD and parton physics • Nothing to say about TMDs, Wigner distributions, GTMDs here.

  3. Nature of QCD bound states • The nucleon is a strongly interacting, relativistic bound states. • Understanding such a system theoretically is presently beyond the capability of the best minds in the world. • It posts a great intellectual challenge to the QCD community (theorists and experimentalists).

  4. What an EIC can do? • Studying partonic content of a QCD bound state (nucleon and nucleus) • The probe is hard and relativistic, the nucleon is measured in the infinite momentum frame (light-cone correlations) • Note that the wave function is frame-dependent, the DIS naturally selects the IMF. • Structure and probe physics can be separated nicely (factorization)!

  5. Partons: good and bad • Good: constructing the bound state properties in terms of those of the individual particles, such as the momentum, part of the spin. • Bad: • not all quantities can be done this way Mass, contains twist-2, 3 and 4 components • No Lorentz symmetric physical picture, transverse polarization, longitudinal polarization, different components of a four vector, etc.

  6. Why Parton pictures for the nucleon spin? The spin structure of the nucleon? • Theorists: any frame, any gauge.. • Experimenters: • Infinite momentum frame (IFM): how the nucleon spin is made of parton constituents, this is the frame where the proton structure are probed!

  7. Summary • The spin parton picture only exists for transverse polarization, in which the GPD’s provide the transverse polarization density (JI) • For the nucleon helicity, the sum rule involves twist-three effects, need more theoretical development.(Jaffe & Manohar) • The partonic AM sum rule is not related to TMDs. Ji, Xiong, Yuan, Phys.Rev.Lett. 109 (2012) 152005

  8. Matrix element of AM density

  9. Transverse polarization vs spin • Transverse angular momentum (spin) operator J┴ does not commute with the longitudinal momentum operator P+. • Thus, transverse polarized proton is NOT in the transverse spin eigenstate! • Transverse polarized nucleon is in the eigenstate of the transverse Pauli-Lubanski vector W┴ • W┴ contains two parts P-J+┴ and P+J-┴

  10. Two parts of the transverse pol • While the first part is leading in the parton interpretation for the AM, the second part is subleading. • However, the good news is that the second part is related to the the first part through Lorentz symmetry. • Even the component of is not all leading in light-cone. Only the second term has leading light-cone Fock component. However, the first term again can be related to the second by Lorentz symmetry.

  11. Light-cone picture for S_perp • Burkardt (2005) , Important point: • Sum rule works for transverse pol. if a parton picture works, one has to show that a parton of momentum x will carry angular momentum x(q(x)+E(x)). We can shown this in PRL paper

  12. comments

  13. EIC will do a great job for helicities • \Delta q (x), better understanding about the sea and strange quarks • \Delta g(x), better measurement through two jet and evolution. • However, OAM is harder but not impossible.

  14. References • Ji, Xiong, Yuan, Phys.Rev.Lett. 109 (2012) 152005; Phys.Rev. D88 (2013) 1, 014041, Phys.Lett. B717 (2012) 214-218 • Hatta, Phys. Lett. B708, 186 (2012); Hatta, Tanaka and Yoshda, JHEP, 1302, 003 (2013).

  15. Helicity sum rule involving twist-three

  16. Parton transverse momentum and transverse coordinates • Why twist-three? Because the AM operator involves parton transverse momentum! • To develop a parton picture, we need partons with transverse d.o.f.

  17. A simpler parton picture? • Presence of A┴ in the covariant derivative spoils simple parton picture! Let’s get rid of it. • One can work in the fixed gauge A+=0 （jaffe & manohar) All operator are bilinear in fields, which leads to a spin decomposition in light-cone gauge

  18. OAM density and relation to twist-three GPD • OAM density Bashingsky, Jaffe, Hagler, Schaefer… • Partonic OAM can be related to the matrix elements of twist-three GPDs (Hatta, Ji, Yuan) • Thus the orbital AMO density in LC is measurable in experiment! • Possibly program for EIC with twist-three GPDs, need more work.

  19. Lattice QCD and partons • Lattice simulation is the only systematic approach to calculate non-perturbaive QCD physics at present. • Lattice cannot solve all non-perturbative QCD problems. Particularly it has not been very ineffective in computing parton physics. This has been a serious problem. • However, this situation might have been changed recently.

  20. Light-front correlations • Parton physics is related to light-front correlations, which involve real time. • In the past the only approach has been to compute moments, which quickly become intractable for higher ones. • Light-front quantization, although a natural theoretical tools, has not yield a systematic approximation.

  21. Recent development • X. Ji, Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 262002 (2013). • X. Ji, J. Zhang, and Y. Zhao, Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 112002 (2013). • Y. Hatta, X. Ji, and Y. Zhao, Phys. Rev. D89 (2014) 085030 • X. Ji, J. Zhang, X. Xiong, Phys. Rev. D90 (2014) 014051 • H. W. Lin, Chen, Cohen and Ji, arXiv:1402.1462 • J. W. Qiu and Y. Q. Ma, arXiv:1404.6860 • X. Ji, P. Sun, F. Yuan, arXiv:1406.0320

  22. Solution of the problem • Step 1: Light-cone correlations can be approximated by “off but near” light-cone “space-like” correlations • Step 2: Any space-like separation can be made simultaneous by suitably choosing the Lorentz frame. 𝜉- 𝜉+ t Step1 Step2 x

  23. Justification for step 1 • Light-cone correlations arise from when hadrons travel at the speed-of-light or infinite momentum • A hadron travels at large but finite momentum should not be too different from a hadron traveling at infinite momentum. • The difference is related to the size of the momentum P • But physics related to the large momentum P can be calculated in perturbation theory according to asymptotic freedom.

  24. Consequences for step 2 • Equal time correlations can be calculated using Wilson’s lattice QCD method. • Thus all light-cone correlations can in the end be treated with Monte Carlo simulations.

  25. Effective field theory language

  26. Infrared factorization • Infrared physics of O(P,a) is entirely captured by the parton physics o(µ). In particular, it contains all the collinear divergence when P gets large. • Z contains all the lattice artifact (scheme dependence), but only depends on the UV physics, can be calculated in perturbation theory • Factorization can be proved to all orders in perturbation theory (Qiu et al.)

  27. A Euclidean quasi-distribution • Consider space correlation in a large momentum P in the z-direction. • Quark fields separated along the z-direction • The gauge-link along the z-direction • The matrix element depends on the momentum P. 𝜉0 0 Z 𝜉3

  28. Taking the limit P-> ∞ first • After renormalizing all the UV divergences, one has the standard quark distribution! • One can prove this using the standard OPE • One can also see this by writing |P˃ = U(Λ(p)) |p=0> • and applying the boost operator on the gauge link. 𝜉- 𝜉0 𝜉+ 𝜉3

  29. Finite but large P

  30. Practical considerations • For a fixed x, large Pz means large kz, thus, as Pz gets larger, the valence quark distribution in the z-direction get Lorentz contracted, z ~1/kz. • Thus one needs increasing resolution in the z-direction for a large-momentum nucleon. Roughly speaking: aL/aT ~ γ

  31. γ=4 x,y Large P z

  32. Power of the approach • Gluon helicity distribution and total gluon spin • Generalized parton distributions • Transverse-momentum dependent parton distributions • Light-cone wave functions • Higher twist observables

  33. Opportunities for both EIC and lattice • Lattice allows calculating TMDs and GPDs at experimental kinematic points, x, k_perp, etc. This entails powerful comparison between exp and theory. • Lattice calculations are hard, but not impossible…

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