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We investigate the electromagnetic structure of heavy quarkonia and the $B_c$ meson within the light-front quark model (LFQM) to better understand the internal spatial charge distributions and QCD dynamics of heavy mesons. The light-front…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-17 Rayn Rasyid Harjapradipta , Muhammad Ridwan , Ahmad Jafar Arifi , Terry Mart

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 consider the light-front wave function for the valence quark state of mesons using the AdS/CFT correspondence, as has been suggested by Brodsky and Teramond. Two kinds of wave functions, obtained in different holographic Soft-Wall…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-25 Alfredo Vega , Ivan Schmidt , Tanja Branz , Thomas Gutsche , Valery Lyubovitskij

The QCD light-front (LF) Hamiltonian equation H_{LF}|\Psi> = M^2 |\Psi> derived from quantization at fixed LF time \tau = t+z/c provides a causal, frame-independent, method for computing hadron spectroscopy as well as dynamical observables…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-26 Stanley J. Brodsky , Alexandre Deur

The light-front quantization of gauge theories such as QCD in light-cone gauge provides a frame-independent wavefunction representation of relativistic bound states, simple forms for current matrix elements, explicit unitarity, and a…

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

We investigate the unequal mass relativistic bound state system, the $B_c$ mesons, in a light-front Hamiltonian formalism. We adopt an effective Hamiltonian based on soft-wall light-front holography, together with a longitudinal confinement…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-01-02 Shuo Tang , Yang Li , Pieter Maris , James P. Vary

We investigate the structure of charmonium, bottomonium, and $\rm B_c$ meson systems within the Basis Light-Front Quantization (BLFQ) approach, including both the quark-antiquark ($|q\bar{q}\rangle$) and quark-antiquark-gluon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-10 Jiatong Wu , Hengfei Zhao , Kaiyu Fu , Zhi Hu , Xingbo Zhao , James P. Vary

We calculate light-front wave functions of mesons, baryons and pentaquarks in a model including constituent mass (representing chiral symmetry breaking), harmonic confining potential, and 4-quark local interaction of 't Hooft type. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-18 Edward Shuryak

We obtain the light-front wavefunctions for the nucleon in the valence quark Fock space from an effective Hamiltonian, which includes the transverse and longitudinal confinement and the one-gluon exchange interaction with fixed coupling.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-14 Chandan Mondal , Siqi Xu , Jiangshan Lan , Xingbo Zhao , Yang Li , Dipankar Chakrabarti , James P. Vary

We derive the light-front wave function (LFWF) representation of the $\gamma^{\star} \gamma^{\star} \to \eta_{c} (1S),\eta_{c}(2S)$ transition form factor $F(Q^2_1,Q^2_2)$ for two virtual photons in the initial state. For the LFWF, we use…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-18 Izabela Babiarz , Wolfgang Schäfer , Antoni Szczurek

We compute the gravitational form factors (GFFs) and study their applications for the description of the mechanical properties such as the pressure, shear force distributions, and the mechanical radius of the proton from its light-front…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-19 Sreeraj Nair , Chandan Mondal , Siqi Xu , Xingbo Zhao , Asmita Mukherjee , James P. Vary

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 discuss the light-front wave function for the valence quark state of mesons using the AdS/CFT correspondence. We consider two kinds of wave functions obtained in different holographic Soft-Wall approaches

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-18 Alfredo Vega , Ivan Schmidt , Tanja Branz , Thomas Gutsche , Valery E. Lyubovitskij

We propose a method to calculate the $q\bar{q}$ light front wave functions (LFWFs) of photon at low-virtuality, i.e., the light front amplitude of $\gamma^*\rightarrow q\bar{q}$ at low $Q^2$, based on a light front projection approach. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-31 Chao Shi , Zhongtian Yang , Xurong Chen , Wenbao Jia , Cuibai Luo , Wenchang Xiang

Inspired by the recent development of an algebraic model which provides an adequate and unified description of the internal structure of the lowest-lying pseudo-scalar mesons, belonging both to the light quarks sector and to the one of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-10 B. Almeida-Zamora , J. J. Cobos-Martínez , A. Bashir , K. Raya , J. Rodríguez-Quintero , J. Segovia

We study the photon-to-meson transition form factors (TFFs) F_{M \gamma}(Q^2) for gamma gamma^* \to M using light-front holographic methods. The Chern-Simons action, which is a natural form in 5-dimensional anti-de Sitter (AdS) space, leads…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-11-02 Stanley J. Brodsky , Fu-Guang Cao , Guy F. de Teramond

We use an anti-de Sitter/Quantum Chromodynamics (AdS/QCD) based holographic light-front wavefunction (LFWF) for vector meson, in conjunction with the dipole model to investigate the cross-sections data for the diffractive and exclusive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-22 Neetika Sharma

Hamiltonian light-front quantum field theory provides a framework for calculating both static and dynamic properties of strongly interacting relativistic systems. Invariant masses, correlated parton amplitudes and time-dependent scattering…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-06-10 James P. Vary , Xingbo Zhao , Anton Ilderton , Heli Honkanen , Pieter Maris , Stanley J. Brodsky

Within light-front quantization, hadrons can be represented on a Fock-space basis of configurations of elementary partons. The coefficients of the expansion are called light-front wave functions (LFWFs), and encode all the dynamical degrees…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-10 S. Rodini , A. Schiavi , B. Pasquini

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