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Main Authors: Yang, Ke, Liu, Tianbo, Sun, Peng, Zhao, Yuxiang, Ma, Bo-Qiang
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.08110
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  • We report on the first global analysis of transverse momentum dependent helicity distributions of the proton. The analysis is performed at next-to-leading order with the evolution factor at next-to-next-to-leading-logarithmic accuracy. Nonzero signals are determined for up and down quarks and their $k_T$-integrated polarization are consistent with analyses in collinear factorization, while the distributions of other flavors are loosely constrained by existing data. With increasing transverse momentum, quarks at large $x$ become less polarized while those at small $x$ become more polarized.