Proton gluonic distributions in a light front spectator model (2408.06690v1)

Abstract: We investigate the leading-twist gluonic distribution functions within the proton by formulating a light-front spectator model. The proton light-front wave functions (LFWFs) are adopted from the soft-wall AdS/QCD predictions, and the model parameters are determined using the gluon unpolarized parton distribution function from the NNPDF3.0nlo dataset. Furthermore, we demonstrated the model calculations for gluon transverse momentum distributions (TMDs) and generalized parton distributions (GPDs). We also predicted the gluon spin and orbital angular momentum (OAM) contributions to the total proton spin.