Impact parameter dependence of parton densities at low x.pdfVIP

1 Impact parameter dependence of parton densities at low x S. M. Troshin and N. E. Tyurin a aInstitute for High Energy Physics, Protvino, 142280 Russia 0 We consider impact parameter dependence of the polarized and unpolarized parton densities. Unitarity does 0 not allow factorization of these structure functions over the Bjorken x and the impact parameter b variables. On 0 the basis of the particular geometrical model approach, we conclude that spin of constituent quark may have a 2 significant orbital angular momentum component which can manifest itself through the peripherality of the spin t dependent structure functions. c O 9 2 The particular role of the low Bjorken x re- deep–inelastic scattering and in the hard produc- 3 gion in DIS is well known, it is this region where tion in heavy–ion collisions. v 5 asymptotical properties of the strong interactions To consider geometrical features of parton den- 3 can be studied. The characteristic property of sities we suppose that the DIS process is deter- 2 this region is an essential contribution of the non- mined by the aligned-jet mechanism [1]. The 0 perturbative dynamics [1,2] and one of the possi- aligned-jet mechanism is essentially nonpertur- 1 ble ways to treat this dynamics is the construction bative. It allows one to relate structure func- 0 and application of models. Of course, the short- tions with the discontinuities of the amplitudes of 0 / comings of any model approach to the study of quark–hadron elastic scatterin