T-odd generalized and quasi transverse momentum dependent parton distribution in a scalar spectator model
Abstract
Generalized transverse momentum dependent parton distributions (GTMDs), as mother funtions of transverse momentum dependent parton distributions (TMDs) and generalized parton distributions (GPDs), encode the most general parton structure of hadrons. We calculate four twist-two time reversal odd GTMDs of pion in a scalar spectator model. We study the dependence of GTMDs on the longitudinal momentum fraction carried by the active quark and the transverse momentum for different values of skewness defined as the longitudinal momentum transferred to the proton as well as the total momentum transferred to the proton. In addition, the quasi-TMDs and quasi-GPDs of pion have also been investigated in this paper.
I INTRODUCTION
Exploring the partonic substructure of hadrons is still at the frontier of hadronic high energy physics research. The parton distribution functions (PDFs) make it clear how the longitudinal parton momentums in hadron are distributed. However, they only include one dimension information. Therefore probing how partons distribute in the transverse plane in both momentum and coordinate space becomes a vital topic. Typically, the transverse spatial distribution of partons inside a hadron can be quantified by Generalised parton distributions (GPDs) Diehl (2003); Belitsky and Radyushkin (2005); Garcon (2002), which can be denoted as a function of longitudinal momentum fraction carried by the parton, the longitudinal momentum transferred to the hadron and the total momentum transferred . They can be accessed through measurements in hard exclusive reactions like deep virtual Compton scattering and hard exclusive meson production Goeke et al. (2001); Belitsky and Radyushkin (2005). While the transverse momentum dependent parton distributions (TMDs) Collins and Soper (1982); Bacchetta et al. (2007); Meissner et al. (2007) depending on both the longitudinal and transverse motion of partons inside a hadron can be studied by the description of various hard semi-inclusive reactions. More general distibutions than the GPDs and the TMDs, the generalized transverse momentum dependent parton distributions (GTMDs) Meissner et al. (2008, 2009); Lorcé and Pasquini (2013) could reduce to them in specific kinematical limits, therefore serve as mother distributions. The GTMDs can directly enter the description of hard exclusive reactions. The parametrization of the generalized quark-quark correlation functions for a spin- and spin- hadron in terms of GTMDs are given in Refs.Meissner et al. (2008, 2009). Then the authors in Ref.Lorcé and Pasquini (2013) add a complete classification of gluon GTMDs. Particularly, the correlator related to the time-reversal odd (T-odd) GTMDs is contributed by the final state interactions from gauge link or Wilson line. These interactions are necessary to generate the single spin asymmetries Brodsky et al. (2002).
Although PDFs are related to parton fields in QCD, it is difficult to calculate them directly in QCD since they are nonperturbative quantities. This difficulties may be overcomed by Lattice QCD method studying the PDFs from first principles. However, PDFs are usually defined on the light cone, which poses a problem for the standard Euclidean formulation, and in lattice QCD calculation only moments of distributions in can be accessed as matrix elements of local operators Dolgov et al. (2002); Gockeler et al. (2005). To overcome these issues, the proposed large-momentum effective theory (LaMET) of Ji has been presented Ji (2013). This method evaluates PDFs on the lattice through quasi-PDFs Ji (2013); Ma and Qiu (2018); Ji (2014), whose mother correlation functions includes a spacelike operator instead of the usual lightlike entering the definition of the standard PDFs. These quasi-PDFs can be reached directly from the lattice QCD calculation Lin et al. (2015) and as the quasi-PDFs depend logarithmically on when becomes large, and they need a perturbative matching in LaMET to reduce to the standard PDFs. A very recent review of LaMET is given in Ji et al. (2020). Many theoretical discussions and lattice simulations for quasi-PDFs and similar quantities has been performed Orginos et al. (2017); Green et al. (2018); Alexandrou et al. (2015); Chen et al. (2016); Alexandrou et al. (2017a); Zhang et al. (2017); Lin et al. (2018a); Bali et al. (2018); Alexandrou et al. (2018a); Zhang et al. (2019a); Alexandrou et al. (2018b); Chen et al. (2018a); Zhang et al. (2019b); Alexandrou et al. (2018c); Liu et al. (2020); Lin et al. (2018b). Moreover, several model calculations of quasi-PDFs have been carried out Gamberg et al. (2015); Bacchetta et al. (2017); Nam (2017); Broniowski and Ruiz Arriola (2017); Hobbs (2018); Broniowski and Ruiz Arriola (2018); Xu et al. (2018). There have also been a number of works on quasi-PDFs renormalization Chen et al. (2018b); Green et al. (2018); Ji et al. (2018); Ishikawa et al. (2017); Alexandrou et al. (2017b); Constantinou and Panagopoulos (2017); Xiong et al. (2017); Chen et al. (2017); Ishikawa et al. (2016). The approach Ji (2013) can be generalized to any light-cone correlations in hadron physics, e.g. the correlators related to GPDs and TMDs. There has been a lot of efforts on the quasi-TMDs, including their renormalization and matching to the physical TMDs Ji et al. (2015, 2019a); Ebert et al. (2019a, b, 2020a); Ji et al. (2019b, c); Vladimirov and Schäfer (2020); Ji et al. (2020); Ebert et al. (2020b). These quasi-TMD works have made important breakthroughs on their pinched-pole singularity issue, renormalization, evolution, soft factor subtraction, and factorization into physical TMDs. Moreover, the nonperturbative Collins-Soper evolution kernel of TMDs has been calculated in Shanahan et al. (2020a, b) , which is an important step in TMDs full extractions from lattice QCD. In summary, it may be useful to study the quasi-distributions such as quasi-PDFs, quasi-GPDs and quasi-TMDs.
Among the hadrons, pions are very fascinating particles and they hold a lot of information on the structure of hadrons. There has been a tremendous effort to deduce the parton distribution functions of the pion. Pions provide the force that binds the protons and neutrons inside the nuclei and they also influence the properties of the isolated nucleons. Thus understanding of matter is not complete without getting a detailed information on the role of pions. In this paper, being inspired by the previous works for quasi-distribution model calculations Bhattacharya et al. (2019a, b); Ma et al. (2019), we will probe the T-odd GTMDs, quasi-TMDs and the quasi-GPDs of the pion applying a scalar spectator model. In particular, GPDs of the pion have been obtained in various models like chiral quark model Broniowski and Ruiz Arriola (2003); Dorokhov et al. (2011), NJL model Davidson and Ruiz Arriola (2002); Theussl et al. (2004), light-front constituent quark model Frederico et al. (2009) and lattice QCD Brömmel et al. (2008); Sufian et al. (2020); Izubuchi et al. (2019); Chen et al. (2019). We will give out the analytical results of all four twist-two T-odd GTMDs, quasi-TMDs and quasi-GPDs in the present paper, and conduct a qualitative analysis of all these distributions.
The remainder of this paper is as follows: Sec.II below describes in detail the theoretical definition of various pion parton distributions. In Sec.III we give out the analytical results of four T-odd GTMDs, quasi-TMDs and quasi-GPDs in a scalar spectator. In Sec.IV, we present our numerical studies using a group of fitted model parameters of a scalar spectator model. A brief conclusion is presented in Sect.V.
II Definition of pion parton distributions
II.1 Transverse momentum dependent parton distribution
For a spinless particle, such as the pion, only two leading twist TMDs arise, in contrast to the eight found for spin- particles Barone et al. (2010). The TMD is simply the unpolarized quark distribution, whereas the Boer-Mulders (BM) function Boer and Mulders (1998), , describes the distribution of transversely polarized quarks in the pion. The BM function is defined from the quark-quark distribution correlation function
(1) |
where is the four-momentum of the pion moving along the -axis with the components () in the light-cone coordinates, in which the plus and minus components of any four-vector have the form , and transverse part . The quark field and momentum are denoted by and . In the correlator Eq.(1) we have Wilson lines
(2) |
where
(3) |
Here is the path-ordering operator and is the gluon field. The strong couping constant is denoted by . The BM function can be obtained by
(4) |
with the pion mass denoted by .
II.2 T-odd GTMDs and GPDs
To obtain GTMDs, we start from the generalized -dependent correlator denoted by
(5) |
where the initial and final state four-momentum are characterized by and . We use the common kinematical variables
(6) |
where we consider the range of the skewness variable . In general, the generalized -dependent correlator in Eq.(5), unlike GPDs or TMDs, are complex-valued functions. We can reach four complex-valued twist-two GTMDs through
(7) |
where the superscripts , stand for T-even and T-odd part respectively. We have adopted the general definitions , and . The T-odd twist-two GTMDs correspond to the imaginary part of complex-valued twist-two GTMDs.
II.3 Quasi-TMD and quasi-GPD
In the following we turn to the definitions of the quasi-TMD and quasi-GPD of the pion meson. Quasi-TMD is defined through an equal-time spatial correlation function
(10) |
The Wilson lines read
(11) |
where
(12) |
Quasi-TMD can be obtained from two definitions
(13) |
The original paper on quasi-PDFs suggested to use the matrix Ji (2013) for the unpolarized quasi-PDF . It was later argued that the matrix would lead to a better suppression of higher-twist contributions Radyushkin (2017). Similarly, quasi-GPDs are also defined through an equal-time spatial correlation function
(14) |
where the Wilson line is given by
(15) |
Then the twist-two quasi-GPDs of the pion can be obtained through two definitions
(16) |
III Analytical results in a scalar spectator model
In this section, being inspired by the previous works for quasi-distribution model calculations Bhattacharya et al. (2019a, b); Ma et al. (2019), we apply a scalar spectator model to reach the analytic results of the quasi-TMD , quasi-GPD and T-odd GTMDs. In this model, two types of particles have to be considered: the pion target with mass and the quark or antiquark with mass . A pion field is coupled to a quark and an antiquark using a pseudo-scalar interaction. Including isospin the interaction part of the Lagrangian reads
(17) |
where is the coupling constant and are the Pauli matrices. In the work Ma et al. (2019), a point-like coupling have been adopted instead of a simple constant to eliminate the divergences arising after integration over large . Furthermore the parameters of the spectator model have been determined by the authors of Ref.Ma et al. (2019) through fitting the model result of unpolaried parton distribution to the GRV parametrization Gluck et al. (1992) for the pion. We follow the same point-like coupling form in Ma et al. (2019) as
(18) |
where . Here and are the model parameters. By choosing the point-like coupling in Eq.(18), the applicable range of could be . This kinematical region is of great interest for quasi-PDFs and quasi-GPDs.
III.1 Reuslts for TMD , GPD and T-odd GTMDs
We first discuss the result for TMD . To get nonzero results for these functions requires considering at least one-loop corrections that include effects from the Wilson line. At the leading order in , one finds for the correlator in Eq.(1)
(19) |
where integral is realized from taking the imaginary part of the eikonal propagator: . The color factor satisfies . Then performing the integrals for and applying contour integration together with Eq.(4), one obtains
(20) |
where we have used
(21) |
The result in Eq.(20) is the same with previous prediction in Refs.Lu and Ma (2004); Meissner et al. (2008). is negative which agrees with previous expectations Burkardt and Hannafious (2008).
The GPD can be extracted from the integrated quark-quark correlator in Eq.(8), which reads
(22) |
where . Performing the integrals for applying contour integration together with Eq.(9), we obtains
(23) |
where the in the denominator has the form
(24) |
Then we focus on T-odd GTMDs in the spectator model. Similar to TMD case, one needs to introduce one loop diagrams for the correlator shown as The correlator in Eq.(5) reads in the spectator model
(25) |
Evaluating the -integral by contour integration, the result for the four T-odd GTMDs can be cast into
(26) |
where all the four T-odd GTMD only have nonvanishing analytical results in the DGLAP region. The following is a compilation of the numerators of all the leading-twist T-odd GTMDs:
(27) |
The denominators in Eq.(26) are given by
(28) |
If taking , we work out the -integral reserving the real part of the results and obtain
(29) |
where
(30) |
with
(31) |
On the other hand, when , using the similar method as the derivation of Eq.(29), the the four T-odd GTMD results can be obtained as
(32) |
where
(33) |
with
(34) |
III.2 Results for quasi-TMD and quasi-GPD
We start from the equal-time spatial correlation function in Eq.(10), which can be written in the spectator as
(35) |
In order to apply contour integration we can rewrite the denominator as
(36) |
where are the poles for
(37) |
Then according to Eq.(13), the quasi-TMD reads
(38) |
where and . It can be verified that in the limit , the quasi-TMD in Eq.(35) reduces to the standard TMD shown as Eq.(20). At the same time, .
The quasi-GPD of the pion meson can be calculated in a similar way. In the spectator model, the correlator in Eq.(14) to calculate the quasi-GPD has the form:
(39) |
After performing the -integral using the contour integration, we write down the analytical result of the quasi-GPD as follows according to Eq.(16)
(40) |
where
(41) |
The poles coming from the denominator are given by
(42) |
with . Similarly, .
IV Numerical calculation
In order to fix the parameters of the spectator model, the authors of Ref.Ma et al. (2019) fit the model result of unpolaried parton distribution to the GRV parametrization Gluck et al. (1992) for the pion. We adopt the fitted values for the parameters and . We make a preliminary estimate for choosing the strong coupling and adopting the quark mass GeV.












Firstly, we depict the four T-odd GTMD results considering different values of and in Figs.1-4. The T-odd GTMD as functions of and are shown in Fig.1. According to Eq.(26), only in region, the T-odd GTMD has nonvanishing value. In the upper, left panel of Fig.1, we plot the T-odd GTMD at and . Note that in this case the result of is negative. One can also find that as the value becomes larger, the maximum value of resulting in nonvanishing becomes smaller and at , the maximum value of is about 0.8GeV. For a fixed value, as the value of increases, the result becomes smaller first and then larger. At a fixed value , the reachs the minimum when is about 0.3. We depict the at and in the upper, right panel of Fig.1. Roughly speaking, it can be seen that the - regions below straight line are related to positive . Then we compare the two upper panels in Fig.1 and find that the result in the right panel is larger than that in the left panel at the same - point. Comparing the upper panels with the lower panels, we emphasize that the two corresponding contours at have nearly the same shape.


Fig.2 depicts the T-odd GTMD as functions of and , where the paremeter values of contours are the same as Fig.1. In two left panels, the result increases as or increases. Comparing two left panels, we find that the result in the lower panel is slightly smaller than that in the upper panel at the same - point; While the results in two right panels are usually positive. Unlike two right panels in Fig.1 where we plot contours at , we show the result at . Such difference indicates that the allowable maximum of for reaching nonvanishing T-odd GTMD becomes smaller in terms of that for . We plot the T-odd GTMD as functions of and in Fig.3, where the paremeter values of contours are the same as Fig.1. All four panels basically show the same shape of contours. Moreover, the maximum absolute value of the T-odd GTMD can achieve 0.56 which is a larger value than those in Figs.1-2. In Fig.4, the T-odd GTMD as a function of and at has been shown. Note that this GTMD becomes zero when .




In the following we turn to the results of quasi-TMD and quasi-GPD . In Fig.5, we plot the quasi-TMD as functions of and at different values of and TMD as functions of and . We can see from the upper left panel that the absolute value of quasi-TMD becomes larger as close to zero. In some region with negative , the corresponding has nonvanishing values. As increases from to , the resulting absolute value gets larger first and then becomes smaller. For a nonvanishing result, the allowable maximum value of is around . Comparing the three panels in Fig.5 depicting the quasi-TMD with GeV, we can find that as the value increases, the minimum of inside the contours becomes larger. In the lower left panel with GeV, the quasi-TMD result stay the same at a fixed value except the case close to 0 or 1. The TMD as a negative function of and is shown in the lower right panel of Fig.5. The absolute value of can reach 0.28 in almost all the range at a very small value of .




Finally, we display the quasi-GPD as functions of and for different and values in Fig.6. This quasi-GPD is negative. In the upper left panel, it is desired to mention that when GeV, the quasi-GPD result hardly depends on the value of . After comparing the two upper panels, we can acquire that the allowable range of for the nonvanishing quasi-GPD becomes larger when slightly increases from zero. Two panels have the very similar contour shape. When , the quasi-GPD result is shown in two lower panels of Fig.6. The absolute values of in two lower panels are smaller than those in two upper panels. We also find that when GeV, the quasi-GPD result hardly depends on the value of .
V Conclusion
In this paper we have computed four T-odd GTMDs, quasi-TMD and quasi-GPD in a scalar spectator model. We have present the results for four T-odd GTMDs. To get nonzero results for these functions requires considering at least one-loop corrections that include effects from the Wilson line. We have studied the relation of GTMDs for different values of skewness defined as the longitudinal momentum transferred to the proton and the total momentum transferred to the proton . We found only in region, the T-odd GTMDs has nonvanishing value. Generally, the four T-odd GTMDs are negative in - space. However, the results in certain parameter space are positive. Note that the T-odd GTMD becomes zero when . We have also considered the distributions of quasi-TMD and quasi-GPD. For the contours of quasi-TMD, we can find that as the value increases, the minimum of inside the contours becomes larger. We also find that when GeV, the quasi-GPD result hardly depends on the value of .
Acknowledgements.
Hao Sun is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.11675033) and by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant No. DUT18LK27).References
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