Gluonic Structure of the Constituent Quark

• Published in: arXiv.org
• Main Authors: Kochelev, Nikolai, Hee-Jung, Lee, Zhang, Baiyang, Zhang, Pengming
• Format: Paper Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Ithaca Cornell University Library, arXiv.org 02.02.2016
• Subjects: Constituents; Convolution; Hadrons; Instantons; Physics - High Energy Physics - Experiment; Physics - High Energy Physics - Phenomenology; Physics - Nuclear Experiment; Physics - Nuclear Theory; Quantum chromodynamics; Quarks; Variations
• ISSN: 2331-8422
• DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.1512.03863

Based on both the constituent quark picture and the instanton model for QCD vacuum, we calculate the unpolarized and polarized gluon distributions in the constituent quark and in the nucleon. Our approach consists of the two main steps. At the first step, we calculate the gluon distributions inside the constituent quark generated by the perturbative quark-gluon interaction, the non-perturbative quark-gluon interaction, and the non-perturbative quark-gluon-pion anomalous chromomagnetic interaction. The non-perturbative interactions are related to the existence of the instantons, strong topological fluctuations of gluon fields, in the QCD vacuum. At the second step, the convolution model is applied to derive the gluon distributions in the nucleon. A very important role of the pion field in producing the unpolarized and the polarized gluon distributions in the hadrons is discovered. We discuss a possible solution of the proton spin problem.