Twist-4 proton GTMDs in the light-front quark–diquark model

Abstract

By integrating across the light-cone energy, totally unintegrated, off-diagonal quark-quark generalized parton correlation functions (GPCFs) can yield generalized transverse-momentum dependent parton distributions (GTMDs). We have obtained the twist-4 GTMDs for the case of proton in the light-front quarkdiquark model (LFQDM). We have decoded the quark-quark GTMD correlator for proton and solved the parametrization equations for Dirac matrix structure at twist-4. We have derived the explicit equations of GTMDs for the diquark being scalar or vector leading to the results for the struck quark being a u or d quark.Being a multidimensional function, the dependence is studied with two variables at a time, keeping the others fixed. Transverse-momentum dependent form factors (TMFFs) have been obtained from GTMDs via integration over the longitudinal momentum fraction x of the quark. We have debated over the possibility to specify the initial and final state polarizations of the smacked quark and the nucleon in twist-4 GTMDs as well as the Wigner distributions. Additionally, from twist-4 GTMDs, we have deduced the twist-4 T-even TMDs and found its synchronization with the already published results.