Proton spin decomposition

ID: qcd.proton.ji_spin_accounting

Proton spin is a total conserved angular momentum with quark spin, quark orbital and gluon total contributions defined at a resolution scale.

Status: canonical_reference

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Sources

• https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.78.610

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