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Transverse energy-momentum tensor distributions in polarized nucleons

Ho-Yeon Won* and Cédric Lorcé†

  • *Contact author: hoyeon.won@polytechnique.edu
  • †Contact author: cedric.lorce@polytechnique.edu
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Phys. Rev. D 114, 014012 – Published 6 July, 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/l7qb-49nz

Abstract

We complete our study of the relativistic spatial distributions of the energy-momentum tensor inside polarized nucleons within the quantum phase-space formalism. In the present work, we focus on the components of the energy-momentum tensor involving at least one transverse index. We also explore the multipole structure of the transverse distributions in a moving nucleon. In the infinite-momentum frame, we show that the formalism reproduces the standard light-front distributions, including those with a “bad” component, and explains the origin of their structure.

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Phys. Rev. D 114, 014012– Published 6 July, 2026
  • Received 16 April 2026
  • Accepted 9 June 2026
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