Accessing Orbital Angular Momentum Thru Pion Cloud Itaru Nakagawa RIKEN/RBRC
Proton Spin +1/2
P-wave
Proton Spin +1/2
P-wave
Nucleon EM Form Factors
Nucleon EM Form Factors low Q
Nucleon EM Form Factors phenomenological fit : “smooth” part (sum of 2 dipoles) + “bump” (gaussian) 6 parameter fit for each FF pronounced structure in all FF around Q 0.5 GeV/c pion cloud J.Friedrich & Th. Walcher, EPJA A17, 607 (2003)
Sea Asymmetry from Drell-Yan Processes Towell et al., Phys.Rev. D64 (2001) Profounding Example of Pion Cloud
excess Extra dbar in proton g.s. Sea Quarks Carry Major Orbital Angular Momentum Component?
Pion Model Prediction of Orbital Angular Momentum A.W. Thomas JLab
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Proton Spin +1/2 70%20~25%5~10%
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Experiment Sensitive to p-Wave
Angular Distribution
Pion Cloud Model
Atomic Electron Scattering Virtual pion pickup Probing Pion Cloud Need : Q 2 ~ 0.2 GeV/c 2 Compass Calculation by T. Horn +
Summary pion cloud is one of the way to access Orbital Angular Momentum There are (will be) many experiments which explore pion cloud Not good idea yet to be done at J-PARC
Elastic Scattering
Cross Sections
Valence Quark Interchange
Concerns So far, q-interchange model is only quantitative level Qualitatively, regge pole) Elastic Soft Mechanism Elastic No Fragmentation? Sensitivity to sea? p
Relativistic Valence Quark rXiv: ハ [hep-ph]