Angular momentum decomposition from a QED example
Abstract
We investigate the angular momentum decomposition with a quantum electrodynamics example to clarify the proton spin decomposition debates. We adopt the light-front formalism where the parton model is well defined. We prove that the sum of fermion and boson angular momenta is equal to half the sum of the two gravitational form factors A (0 ) and B (0 ) , as is well known. However, the suggestion to make a separation of the above relation into the fermion and boson pieces, as a way to measure the orbital angular momentum of fermions or bosons, respectively, is not justified from our explicit calculation.
- Publication:
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Physical Review D
- Pub Date:
- January 2015
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.91.017501
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1412.7775
- Bibcode:
- 2015PhRvD..91a7501L
- Keywords:
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- 14.20.Dh;
- 11.15.-q;
- 12.20.-m;
- 13.40.-f;
- Protons and neutrons;
- Gauge field theories;
- Quantum electrodynamics;
- Electromagnetic processes and properties;
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology;
- High Energy Physics - Experiment
- E-Print:
- 5 latex page, version for publication in PRD