Volume 508 - QCD at the Extremes (QCDEX2025) - Session: Parton Densities and TMDs at high scales, including Heavy Boson PDFs
Spin-flip gluon generalized transverse momentum dependent parton distribution at small-$x$
N.Β Vasim*, S.Β Agarwal and R.Β Abir
*: corresponding author
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Pre-published on: November 19, 2025
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Abstract
The spin-flip processes in deep inelastic scatterings were believed to be suppressed in the high
energy until recently. A positive intercept for the spin-flip generalized transverse momentum-
dependent parton distribution (GTMDs) Re(𝐹1,2) was derived. This is done by analytically solving
the integro-differential evolution equation for Re(𝐹1,2). The surviving solution corresponds to
conformal spin 𝑛 = 2 and carries an explicit cos 3πœ™π‘˜Ξ” + cos πœ™π‘˜Ξ” azimuthal dependence. As the
imaginary part of 𝐹1,2, is related to the spin-dependent odderon or gluon Siver function and scales
as Im(𝐹1,2) ∼ π‘₯0, the positive intercept for Re(𝐹1,2), implies that it is expected to dominate over
the gluon Siver function in the small-π‘₯ limit and may directly impact the modeling of unpolarised
GTMDs and associated spin-flip processes.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.508.0012
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