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Chirality distributions inside baryons in QCD2

  • Stony Brook University

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Abstract

The connection between the spin distribution and the topological structure of the baryon is an open and important problem. Here we address it using QCD in (1+1) spacetime dimensions, which is exactly solvable at large number of colors N. It is found that the distribution of chirality inside a baryon is drastically different from a chirality distribution inside states with zero baryon number, "mesons."This difference is shown to arise from the topological structure of the baryon - at large N, all of the baryon's chirality is concentrated near x=0, whereas in a meson state it vanishes in the small x limit. Our results illustrate how the constituent features of the baryon reemerge and are tied to the topological features of the bosonized solitonic solution. Possible implications for QCD in (3+1) dimensions and for deep inelastic scattering experiments are discussed.

Original languageEnglish
Article number096025
JournalPhysical Review D
Volume106
Issue number9
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 1 2022

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