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We present our recent progress in applying the basis light-front quantization approach to investigate the nucleon's structure. We solve its wave functions from the eigenstates of the light-front QCD Hamiltonian using a fully relativistic,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-28 Chandan Mondal , Siqi Xu , Yiping Liu , Jiangshan Lan , Yang Li , Xingbo Zhao , James P. Vary

We study the associated production of real (isolated) or virtual photons (with their subsequent leptonic decay) and hadronic jets in proton-proton collisions at the LHC using the $k_T$-factorization approach of QCD. The consideration is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-12 A. V. Lipatov , N. P. Zotov

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

Within the basis light-front quantization (BLFQ) framework, we evaluate the gluon chiral-odd generalized parton distributions (GPDs) inside the proton at zero skewness. We employ the light-front wave functions of the proton obtained from a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-20 Bolang Lin , Sreeraj Nair , Chandan Mondal , Siqi Xu , Zhi Hu , Pengxiang Zhang , Xingbo Zhao , James P. Vary

The internal image of the proton is unveiled by examining the generalized parton distributions (GPDs) at zero skewness, within the basis light-front quantized environment. Several distributions emerge when a quark is sampled with different…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-23 Satvir Kaur , Siqi Xu , Chandan Mondal , Xingbo Zhao , James P. Vary

We investigate the Generalized Parton Distributions (GPDs) in impact parameter space using the explicit light front wave functions (LFWFs) for the two-particle Fock state of the electron in QED. The Fourier transform (FT) of the GPDs gives…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-23 Narinder Kumar , Harleen Dahiya

Polarized photon structure can be studied in the future polarized $e^{+}e^{-}$ colliding-beam experiments. We investigate the spin-dependent structure function of the virtual photon $g_1^{\gamma}(x,Q^2,P^2)$, in perturbative QCD for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-25 Ken Sasaki , Tsuneo Uematsu

We present a complete set of transverse momentum dependent and collinear parton densities including the photon over a wide phase space. The photon density appears when evolving parton distributions with QED corrections. The photons are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-15 H. Jung , S. Taheri Monfared , T. Wening

We investigate the twist-3 generalized parton distributions (GPDs) for the valence quarks of the proton within the basis light-front quantization (BLFQ) framework. We first solve for the mass spectra and light-front waved functions (LFWFs)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-13 Ziqi Zhang , Zhi Hu , Siqi Xu , Chandan Mondal , Xingbo Zhao , James P. Vary

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

We present a systematic study of generalized transverse-momentum dependent parton distributions (GTMDs). By taking specific limits or projections, these GTMDs yield various transverse-momentum dependent and generalized parton distributions,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-05-12 Cédric Lorcé , Barbara Pasquini , Marc Vanderhaeghen

We compute the generalized parton distributions (GPDs) of valence quarks, sea quarks, and gluons in the proton using light-front wave functions obtained within the basis light-front quantization (BLFQ) framework, providing a realistic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-21 Yiping Liu , Siqi Xu , Chandan Mondal , Xingbo Zhao , James P. Vary

We introduce a nonperturbative, first principles numerical approach for solving time-dependent problems in quantum field theory, using light-front quantization. As a first application we consider QED in a strong background field, and the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-09-19 Xingbo Zhao , Anton Ilderton , Pieter Maris , James P. Vary

Within the Basis Light-Front Quantization framework, we systematically investigate the subleading twist (twist-3) transverse-momentum-dependent parton distribution functions (TMDs) of the proton beyond the Wandzura-Wilczek (WW)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-22 Zhimin Zhu , Siqi Xu , Jiatong Wu , Hongyao Yu , Zhi Hu , Jiangshan Lan , Chandan Mondal , Xingbo Zhao , James P. Vary , BLFQ Collaboration

Quantum chromodynamics (QCD) describes the structure of hadrons such as the proton at a fundamental level. The precision of calculations in QCD limits the precision of the values of many physical parameters extracted from collider data. For…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-14 Michael Kreshchuk , William M. Kirby , Gary Goldstein , Hugo Beauchemin , Peter J. Love

We investigate the chiral odd generalized parton distributions (GPDs) for the quantum fluctuations of an electron in QED. The light-front wave function (LFWF) of this system gives a template for the quark spin-one diquark structure of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Harleen Dahiya , Asmita Mukherjee

In this work, we have investigated the transverse and spatial structure of light ($\pi^+ (u\bar d)$, $K^+(u\bar s)$) and heavy ($\eta_c(c\bar c)$, $\eta_b (b\bar b)$, $B$ and $D$) pseudoscalar mesons using the light-cone quark model. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-19 Satyajit Puhan , Navpreet Kaur , Harleen Dahiya

Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) exhibits complementary descriptions of hadrons: a rest-frame picture based on confinement, chiral symmetry breaking and interquark forces, and a high-energy light-front picture expressed through parton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-22 Edward Shuryak , Ismail Zahed

Gluon transverse-momentum dependent distributions (TMDs) are very important for revealing the internal structure of the proton. They correspond to a variety of experiments and are among the major tasks of the future electron-ion colliders.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-12 Hongyao Yu , Zhi Hu , Siqi Xu , Chandan Mondal , Xingbo Zhao , James P. Vary

We present a numerical analysis of helicity independent nucleon generalized parton distributions (GPDs) using the known formalism based on inclusion of higher Fock states in the soft-wall approach of the anti-de Sitter/QCD model. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-23 Neetika Sharma