Recent progress in Hamiltonian light-front QCD
Nuclear Theory
2009-09-29 v1
Abstract
Hamiltonian light-front quantum field theory constitutes a framework for the non-perturbative solution of invariant masses and correlated parton amplitudes of self-bound systems. By choosing light-front gauge and adopting a basis function representation, we obtain a large, sparse, Hamiltonian matrix for mass eigenstates of gauge theories that is solvable by adapting the ab initio no-core methods of nuclear many-body theory. Full covariance is recovered in the continuum limit, the infinite matrix limit. We outline our approach and discuss the computational challenges.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0812.1819,
title = {Recent progress in Hamiltonian light-front QCD},
author = {J. P. Vary and H. Honkanen and Jun Li and P. Maris and S. J. Brodsky and P. Sternberg and E. G. Ng and C. Yang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0812.1819},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
Invited paper at Light Cone 2008, Mulhouse, France