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Quantum Field Theory (QFT) is used to describe the physics of particles in terms of their fundamental constituents. The Light-Front Field Theory~(LFFT), introduced by Paul Dirac in 1949, is an alternative approach to solve some of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-17 Jurandi Leãoo , J. P. B. C. de Melo

We discuss the light-cone quantization of gauge theories as a calculational tool for representing hadrons as QCD bound-states of relativistic quarks and gluons, and also as a novel method for simulating quantum field theory on a computer.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-25 S. Brodsky , H-C Pauli , S. Pinsky

Extending the concepts of light-front field theory to quantum statistics provides a novel approach towards nuclear matter under extreme conditions. Such conditions exist, e.g., in neutron stars or in the early stage of our universe. They…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Michael Beyer

We study the electromagnetic structure of the pion in terms of the quantum cromodynamic~(QCD) model on the Breit-frame. We calculated the observables, such as the electromagnetic form factor. The priori to have a calculation covariant need…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-17 Clayton Santos Mello , J. P. B. C. de Melo , T. Frederico

We apply the basis light front quantization (BLFQ) approach to describe the valence structures of the charged light meson ground states. Specifically, the light front wavefunctions of $\pi^\pm$, $\rho^\pm$, $K^\pm$, and $K^{*\pm}$ are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-03-27 Shaoyang Jia , James P. Vary

A unified description of spacelike and timelike hadron form factors within a light-front model was successfully applied to the pion. The model is extended to the nucleon to study the role of $q \bar q$ pair production and of nonvalence…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 E. Pace , G. Salme` , T. Frederico , S. Pisano , J. P. B. C. de Melo

We compute the gravitational form factors (GFFs) of the pion and kaon using their light-front wave functions within the Basis Light-Front Quantization framework. The wave functions are obtained by solving a light-front effective Hamiltonian…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-19 Amrita Sain , Sreeraj Nair , Chandan Mondal , Xingbo Zhao , James P. Vary

Non-perturbative Hamiltonian light-front quantum field theory presents opportunities and challenges that bridge particle physics and nuclear physics. Fundamental theories, such as Quantum Chromodynmamics (QCD) and Quantum Electrodynamics…

We investigate the electromagnetic form factors of the nucleon in the framework of basis light front quantization. We compute the form factors using the light front wavefunctions obtained by diagonalizing the effective Hamiltonian…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-20 Chandan Mondal , Siqi Xu , Jiangshan Lan , Xingbo Zhao , Yang Li , Henry Lamm , James P. Vary

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…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-09-29 J. P. Vary , H. Honkanen , Jun Li , P. Maris , S. J. Brodsky , P. Sternberg , E. G. Ng , C. Yang

Nucleon and pion electromagnetic form factors are evaluated in the spacelike region within a light-front constituent quark model, where eigenfunctions of a mass operator, reproducing a large set of hadron energy levels, are adopted and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 F. Cardarelli , E. Pace , G. Salme' , S. Simula

Basis Light-front Quantization (BLFQ) is a nonperturbative approach to quantum field theory. In this paper, we report our recent progress in applying BLFQ to the positronium system in QED and to the meson and the baryon system in QCD. We…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-04-07 Xingbo Zhao , Kaiyu Fu , Hengfei Zhao , Jiangshan Lan , Chandan Mondal , Siqi Xu , 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 this contribution, an approach for a unified description of the pion electromagnetic form factor, in the space- and time-like regions, within a constituent quark model on the light front, will be reviewed. Our approach is based on i) the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 J. P. B. C. de Melo , T. Frederico , E. Pace , G. Salme`

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

Light-cone quantization of gauge theories is discussed from two perspectives: as a calculational tool for representing hadrons as QCD bound-states of relativistic quarks and gluons, and as a novel method for simulating quantum field theory…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-13 Hans-Christian Pauli

Light-front quantization to many-particle systems of finite temperature and density provides a novel approach towards a relativistic description of quark matter and allows us to calculate the perturbative as well as the non-perturbative…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Beyer , S. Mattiello , S. Strauss

Within the basis light-front quantization framework, we compute the masses and light-front wave functions of the $\Lambda_b$ baryon and its isospin triplet counterparts $\Sigma_b^+$, $\Sigma_b^0$, and $\Sigma_b^-$ using a light-front…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-18 Lingdi Meng , Tian-Cai Peng , Zhi Hu , Siqi Xu , Jiangshan Lan , Chandan Mondal , Guo-Li Wang , Xingbo Zhao , James P. Vary

An introductory overview on Light-Front quantization, with some emphasis on recent achievements, is given. Light-Front quantization is the most promising and physical tool to study deep inelastic scattering on the basis of quark gluon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 Matthias Burkardt

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