Revisiting model relations between T -odd transverse-momentum-dependent parton distributions and generalized parton distributions

Abstract

We revisit the connection between generalized parton distributions in impact parameter space and T-odd effects in single spin asymmetries of the semi-inclusive deep inelastic process. We show that nontrivial relations can be established only under very specific conditions, typically realized only in models that describe hadrons as two-body bound systems and involving a helicity-conserving coupling between the gauge boson and the spectator system. Examples of these models are the scalar-diquark spectator model or the quark-target model for the nucleon, and relativistic models for the pion at the lowest order in the Fock-space expansion.