From form factors to generalized parton distributions

Abstract

I present an extraction of generalized parton distributions from selected data on the electromagnetic nucleon form factors. The extracted distributions can in particular be used to quantify the contribution to the proton spin from the total angular momentum carried by valence quarks, as well as their transverse spatial distribution inside the proton.

Comments: 7 pages, 3 figures. To appear in the proceedings of DIS 2013