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Article Dans Une Revue Physics Letters B Année : 2012

Wilson lines and orbital angular momentum

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We present an explicit realization of the Chen et al. approach to the proton spin decomposition in terms of Wilson lines, generalizing the light-front gauge-invariant extensions discussed recently by Hatta. Particular attention is drawn to the residual gauge freedom by further separating the pure-gauge term into contour and residual terms. Contrarily to a recent claim, we show that the Wigner distributions do not give access to the kinetic orbital angular momentum. Finally, we confirm from twist-2 arguments that the advanced, retarded and antisymmetric light-front canonical orbital angular momenta are the same.

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in2p3-00740432 , version 1 (10-10-2012)

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C. Lorcé. Wilson lines and orbital angular momentum. Physics Letters B, 2012, B, pp.185-190. ⟨10.1016/j.physletb.2013.01.007⟩. ⟨in2p3-00740432⟩
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