Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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8199189 | Physics Letters B | 2006 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
The Sivers mechanism gives rise to a non-zero average transverse momentum of partons inside a transversely polarized target. According to a sum rule of Burkardt this transverse momentum vanishes when summing over all partons. We explicitly check the Burkardt sum rule by means of one-loop calculations for a quark target in perturbative QCD and for a diquark spectator model of the nucleon. In both cases the sum rule is fulfilled.
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Authors
K. Goeke, S. MeiÃner, A. Metz, M. Schlegel,