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We present a comprehensive review of the structure of pseudoscalar mesons within an algebraic model formulated in the light-front framework. The approach provides a unified description of leading-twist parton distribution amplitudes (PDAs),…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-21 B. Almeida-Zamora , L. Albino , A. Bashir , J. J. Cobos-Martínez , J. Segovia

We study the heavy-light mesons within basis light-front quantization. The resulting mass spectra of $D$, $D_s$, $B$, and $B_s$ agree reasonably well with experiments. We also predict states which could be measured in the near future. In…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-07-15 Shuo Tang , Yang Li , Pieter Maris , James P. Vary

We investigate the electroweak form factors and semileptonic decay rates of mesons using the constituent quark model based on the light-front degrees of freedom. Our results demonstrate the broader applicability of light-front approach…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Chueng-Ryong Ji , Ho-Meoyng Choi

The light-front representation of quantum chromodynamics provides a frame-independent, quantum-mechanical representation of hadrons at the amplitude level, capable of encoding their multi-quark, hidden-color and gluon momentum, helicity,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-11 Stanley J. Brodsky

We present calculations of radiative transitions between vector and pseudoscalar quarkonia in the light-front Hamiltonian approach. The valence sector light-front wavefunctions of heavy quarkonia are obtained from the Basis Light-Front…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-28 Meijian Li , Yang Li , Pieter Maris , James P. Vary

We produce the light-front wave functions (LFWFs) of the nucleon from a basis light-front ap- proach in the leading Fock sector representation. We solve for the mass eigenstates from a light-front effective Hamiltonian, which includes a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-08 Siqi Xu , Chandan Mondal , Jiangshan Lan , Xingbo Zhao , Yang Li , James P. Vary

Within the basis light-front quantization framework, we systematically investigate the unpolarized and longitudinally polarized double parton distributions (DPDs) of quarks inside the proton. We utilize the light-front wave functions of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-11 Tian-Cai Peng , Zhi Hu , Sreeraj Nair , Siqi Xu , Xiang Liu , Chandan Mondal , Xingbo Zhao , James P. Vary

We solve for the $\rho$-meson's wave functions from a light-front QCD Hamiltonian determined for its constituent quark-antiquark and quark-antiquark-gluon Fock components, with a three-dimensional confinement using basis light-front…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-09 Satvir Kaur , Jiatong Wu , Zhi Hu , Jiangshan Lan , Chandan Mondal , Xingbo Zhao , James P. Vary

We study heavy quarkonium within the light-front Hamiltonian formalism. Our effective Hamiltonian is based on the holographic QCD confining potential and the one-gluon exchange interaction with a running coupling. The obtained spectra are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-09-13 Yang Li

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 the light-front gauge and adopting a basis…

We study the properties of light mesons in the scalar, pseudo-scalar, and vector channels within the light-front quantization, by using the (one flavor) Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model with vector interaction. After taking into account the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 K. Naito , S. Maedan , K. Itakura

The electromagnetic form factors of the $\rho$ meson are evaluated adopting a relativistic constituent quark model based on the light-front formalism, and using a meson wave function with the high-momentum tail generated by the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-01 F. Cardarelli , I. L. Grach , I. M. Narodetskii , G. Salme' , S. Simula

We apply the Basis Light-Front Quantization (BLFQ) approach to the Hamiltonian field theory of Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) in free space. We solve for the mass eigenstates corresponding to an electron interacting with a single photon in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-30 Xingbo Zhao , Heli Honkanen , Pieter Maris , James P. Vary , Stanley J. Brodsky

Light-front Fock state wavefunctions encode the bound state properties of hadrons in terms of their quark and gluon degrees of freedom at the amplitude level. The freedom to choose the light-like quantization four-vector provides an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-11 Stanley J. Brodsky

Mesons containing light and heavy quarks are studied. Interaction of quarks is described by the funnel-type potential with the distant dependent strong coupling, $\alpha_\S(r)$. Free particle hypothesis for the bound state is developed:…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-25 Mikhail N. Sergeenko

We present a systematic comparison of charmonium light-front wave functions obtained through two complementary non-perturbative approaches: Basis Light-Front Quantization (BLFQ) and Dyson-Schwinger equations (DSE). Key observables include…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-27 Xianghui Cao , Yang Li , Chao Shi , James P. Vary , Qun Wang

We obtain the masses, the electromagnetic properties, and the parton distribution functions (PDFs) of $\Lambda$, $\Lambda_c$, and their isospin triplet baryons, i.e, $\Sigma^0$, $\Sigma^+$, $\Sigma^-$ and $\Sigma_c^0$, $\Sigma_c^+$,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-30 Tiancai Peng , Zhimin Zhu , Siqi Xu , Xiang Liu , Chandan Mondal , Xingbo Zhao , James P. Vary

We investigate the properties of charmonium systems in strong external magnetic fields using a relativistic light-front Hamiltonian approach within the Basis Light-Front Quantization (BLFQ) framework. By solving the eigenvalue problem for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-11 Liuyuan Wen , Meijian Li , Yiyu Zhou , Yang Li , James P. Vary

A natural calculus for describing the bound-state structure of relativistic composite systems in quantum field theory is the light-front Fock expansion which encodes the properties of a hadrons in terms of a set of frame-independent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-11 Stanley J. Brodsky

In previous papers we developed the light front formulation for Hamiltonians and wave functions (WFs) for mesons and baryons, with both confinement and chiral symmetry breaking. For baryons limited to the lowest Fock component with three…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-04 Nicholas Miesch , Edward Shuryak , Ismail Zahed