Published June 2019 | Version v1
Journal article

The energy-momentum tensor of spin-1 hadrons: formalism

  • 1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ghent University (Belgium)
  • 2. Centre de Physique Théorique, École polytechnique, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, Palaiseau (France)
  • 3. Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL (United States)

Description

We provide the complete decomposition of the local gauge-invariant energy-momentum tensor for spin-1 hadrons, including non-conserved terms for the individual parton flavors and antisymmetric contributions originating from intrinsic spin. We state sum rules for the gravitational form factors appearing in this decomposition and provide relations for the mass decomposition, work balance, total and orbital angular momentum, mass radius, and inertia tensor. Generalizing earlier work, we derive relations between the total and orbital angular momentum and the Mellin moments of twist-2 and 3 generalized parton distributions, accessible in hard exclusive processes with spin-1 targets. Throughout the work, we comment on the unique features in these relations originating from the spin-1 nature of the hadron, being absent in the lower spin cases.

Availability note (English)

Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-6981-3

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
European Physical Journal. C, Particles and Fields (Online)
Journal Volume
79
Journal Issue
6
Journal Page Range
p. 1-14
ISSN
1434-6052

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