The Impact of QCD and Light-Cone Quantum Mechanics on Nuclear Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-09-11 v1
Abstract
We discuss a number of novel applications of Quantum Chromodynamics to nuclear structure and dynamics, such as the reduced amplitude formalism for exclusive nuclear amplitudes. We particularly emphasize the importance of light-cone Hamiltonian and Fock State methods as a tool for describing the wavefunctions of composite relativistic many-body systems and their interactions. We also show that the use of covariant kinematics leads to nontrivial corrections to the standard formulae for the axial, magnetic, and quadrupole moments of nucleons and nuclei.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9412221,
title = {The Impact of QCD and Light-Cone Quantum Mechanics on Nuclear Physics},
author = {Stanley J. Brodsky and Felix Schlumpf},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9412221},
year = {2009}
}
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