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The light-cone Hamiltonian, incorporating the nonperturbative dynamics of the $q\bar q$ system connected by the string is solved numerically. The spectrum is shown to coincide with that of the center-of-mass Hamiltonian within the accuracy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 V. L. Morgunov , V. I. Shevchenko , Yu. A. Simonov

Applications of relativistic light front dynamics to computing wave functions of heavy nuclei are reviewed. The motivation for this is the desire to find wave functions, expressed in terms of the plus-momentum variable, that simplify the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-08-11 Gerald A. Miller

We employ the Basis Light-Front Quantization (BLFQ) framework to compute the leading-twist (twist-2) and subleading-twist (twist-3) transverse-momentum-dependent parton distribution functions (TMDs) of the kaon. The light-front wave…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-13 Yuanqi Lu , Zhimin Zhu , Jiangshan Lan , Chandan Mondal , Xingbo Zhao , James P. Vary

The so-called Localized Waves (LW), and the "Frozen Waves" (FW), have arisen significant attention in the areas of Optics and Ultrasound, because of their surprising energy localization properties. The LWs resist the effects of diffraction…

Classical Physics · Physics 2013-12-31 Jose' L. Prego-Borges , Michel Zamboni-Rached , Erasmo Recami , Eduardo Tavares-Costa

We compute a light front wave function for heavy vector mesons based on long distance matrix elements constrained by decay width analyses in the Non Relativistic QCD framework. Our approach provides a systematic expansion of the wave…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-16 Tuomas Lappi , Heikki Mäntysaari , Jani Penttala

Starting with the solution to the Bethe-Salpeter equation for the pion, in a beyond rainbow-ladder truncation to QCD's Dyson-Schwinger equations (DSEs), we determine the pion's $l_z=0$ and $|l_z|=1$ leading Fock-state light-front wave…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-03-06 Chao Shi , Ian C. Cloët

We present a light-front model calculation of the pion parton distribution functions (PDFs) and the pion electromagnetic form factor. The pion state is modeled in terms of light-front wave functions (LFWFs) for the $q\bar q$, $q\bar q q\bar…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-28 Barbara Pasquini , Simone Rodini , Simone Venturini

The problem of construction of the Wannier functions (WFs) in a restricted Hilbert space of eigenstates of the one-electron Hamiltonian $\hat{H}$ (forming the so-called low-energy part of the spectrum) can be formulated in several different…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 I. V. Solovyev , Z. V. Pchelkina , V. I. Anisimov

The light-cone Fock representation encodes the bound-state quark and gluon properties of hadrons, including their helicity and flavor correlations, in terms of universal process-independent and frame-independent wavefunctions. It also…

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

Starting from the bound state Hamiltonian equation of motion in QCD, we derive relativistic light-front wave equations in terms of an invariant impact variable $\zeta$ which measures the separation of the quark and gluonic constituents…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Guy F. de Teramond , Stanley J. Brodsky

We describe a procedure to extend the light-front holographic approach to hadronic physics to include light-quark masses. The proposed framework allows us to extend the formalism of de Alfaro, Fubini and Furlan to the frame-independent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-05-13 Guy F. de Teramond , Stanley J. Brodsky , Hans Gunter Dosch

In the present paper, we study the properties of $\phi$-meson longitudinal leading-twist light-cone distribution amplitude $\phi_{2;{\phi}}^{\|}(x,\mu)$ by starting from a light-cone harmonic oscillator model for its wavefunction. To fix…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-18 Dan-Dan Hu , Xing-Gang Wu , Long Zeng , Hai-Bing Fu , Tao Zhong

The Light-front quark model (LFQM) has been applied to calculate the transition matrix elements of heavy hadron decays. However, it is noted that using the traditional wave functions of the LFQM given in literature, the theoretically…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-08-24 Hong-Wei Ke , Xue-Qian Li , Zheng-Tao Wei , Xiang Liu

We determine the leading Fock state light front wave functions (LFWFs) of the pion and kaon via light front projections of the covariant Bethe-Salpeter wave function. Using these LFWFs we study the multi-dimensional images of the valence…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-15 Chao Shi , Kyle Bednar , Ian C. Cloët , Adam Freese

It may be possible to derive a constituent approximation for bound states in QCD using hamiltonian light-front field theory. Cutoffs that violate explicit gauge invariance and Lorentz covariance must be employed. A similarity…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert J. Perry

In this paper, we evaluate the electromagnetic and gravitational form factors as well as the corresponding generalized parton distributions of the electron using the Basis Light-front Quantization approach to QED. We compare our results…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-28 Lingdi Meng , Shuo Tang , Zhi Hu , Guo-Li Wang , Yang Li , Xingbo Zhao , James P. Vary

We present recent progress in constructing heavy quarkonia light-front wave functions from the light-front quark model, a relativistic framework well-suited for describing partonic structure and hadronic form factors. In this proceeding, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-01 Muhammad Ridwan , Ahmad Jafar Arifi , Terry Mart

We solve the nucleon's wave functions from the eigenstates of the light-front quantum chromodynamics Hamiltonian for the first time, using a fully relativistic and nonperturbative approach based on light-front quantization, without an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-22 Siqi Xu , Yiping Liu , Chandan Mondal , Jiangshan Lan , Xingbo Zhao , Yang Li , James P. Vary

The light-front (LF) quantization of QCD in light-cone gauge has a number of remarkable advantages, including explicit unitarity, a physical Fock expansion, the absence of ghost degrees of freedom, and the decoupling properties needed to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-11 Prem P. Srivastava , Stanley J. Brodsky

This report aims to present my research updates on distance function wavelets (DFW) based on the fundamental solutions and the general solutions of the Helmholtz, modified Helmholtz, and convection-diffusion equations, which include the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-10-20 W. Chen