Gluon GTMDs at nonzero skewness and impact parameter dependent parton distributions

Abstract

AbstractWe investigate the leading twist generalized transverse momentum dependent parton distributions (GTMDs) of the unpolarized and longitudinally polarized gluons in the nucleon. We adopt a light-front gluon-triquark model for the nucleon motivated by soft-wall AdS/QCD. The gluon GTMDs are defined through the off-forward gluon-gluon generalized correlator and are expressed as the overlap of light-cone wave functions. The GTMDs can be employed to provide the generalized parton distributions (GPDs) by integrating out the transverse momentum. The Fourier transform of the GPDs encodes the parton distributions in the transverse position space, namely, the impact parameter dependent parton distributions (IPDs). We also calculate the three gluon IPDs corresponding to the GPDs $$H^g$$ H g , $$E^g$$ E g and $$\widetilde{H}^g$$ H ~ g , and present their dependence on x and $$b_\perp $$ b ⊥ , respectively.