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The analysis of semi-inclusive deep inelastic electron scattering off polarized 3He at finite momentum transfers, aimed at the extraction of the quark transverse-momentum distributions in the neutron, requires the use of a distorted spin-dependent spectral function for 3He, which takes care of the final state interaction effects. This quantity is introduced in the non-relativistic case, and its generalization in a Poincaré covariant framework, in plane wave impulse approximation for the moment being, is outlined. Studying the light-front spin-dependent spectral function for a J = 1/2 system, such as the nucleon, it is found that, within the light-front dynamics with a fixed number of constituents and in the valence approximation, only three of the six leading twist T-even transverse-momentum distributions are independent.
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Scopetta, S., Del Dotto, A., Kaptari, L. et al. A Light-Front Approach to the 3He Spectral Function. Few-Body Syst 56, 425–430 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00601-014-0935-y
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