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Light-Front Holography: A First Approximation to QCD

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-02-27 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Starting from the Hamiltonian equation of motion in QCD, we identify an invariant light-front coordinate ζ\zeta which allows the separation of the dynamics of quark and gluon binding from the kinematics of constituent spin and internal orbital angular momentum. The result is a single variable light-front Schrodinger equation for QCD which determines the eigenspectrum and the light-front wavefunctions of hadrons for general spin and orbital angular momentum. This light-front wave equation is equivalent to the equations of motion which describe the propagation of spin-JJ modes on anti-de Sitter (AdS) space.

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@article{arxiv.0809.4899,
  title  = {Light-Front Holography: A First Approximation to QCD},
  author = {Guy F. de Teramond and Stanley J. Brodsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0809.4899},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

4 pages. The limits of validity of the model are further discussed. To appear in Physical Review Letters

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