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Light-Front Quantization -- Dirac's "Front Form" -- provides a physical, frame-independent formalism for hadron dynamics and structure. Observables such as structure functions, transverse momentum distributions, and distribution amplitudes…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-12-22 Stanley J. Brodsky

QCD collinear factorization allows coherent hard exclusive reactions to reveal the quark-gluon structure of light nuclei, enabling their 3D tomography. We study elastic form factors and deeply virtual Compton scattering on a helium-4…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-19 V. Martínez-Fernández , B. Pire , P. Sznajder , J. Wagner

Nucleon elastic electromagnetic form factors obtained using both the three-body and quark + fully-interacting-diquark pictures of nucleon structure are employed to calculate an array of light-front transverse densities for the proton and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-23 Z. -N. Xu , Z. -Q. Yao , P. Cheng , C. D. Roberts , J. Rodriguez-Quintero , J. Segovia

One of the most important nonperturbative methods for solving QCD is quantization at fixed light-front time, \tau = t+z/c -- Dirac's "Front Form". The eigenvalues of the light-front QCD Hamiltonian predict the hadron spectrum and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-11 Stanley J. Brodsky , Guy de Teramond

Using gauge invariant hadronic two- and three- density correlators we extract information on the spatial distributions of quarks in hadrons, and on hadron shape and multipole moments within quenched lattice QCD. Combined with the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 C. Alexandrou , Ph. de Forcrand , A. Tsapalis

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

Starting from the Hamiltonian equation of motion in QCD, we identify an invariant light-front coordinate $\zeta$ which allows the separation of the dynamics of quark and gluon binding from the kinematics of constituent spin and internal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-02-27 Guy F. de Teramond , Stanley J. Brodsky

We present the first application of the Basis Light-Front Quantization method to a simple chiral model of the nucleon-pion system as a relativistic bound state for the physical proton. The light-front mass-squared matrix of the nucleon-pion…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-03-18 Weijie Du , Yang Li , Xingbo Zhao , Gerald A. Miller , James P. Vary

We solve for the gluon generalized parton distributions (GPDs) inside the proton, focusing specifically on leading twist chiral-even GPDs. We obtain and employ the light-front wavefunctions (LFWFs) of the proton from a light-front quantized…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-17 Bolang Lin , Sreeraj Nair , Siqi Xu , Zhi Hu , Chandan Mondal , Xingbo Zhao , James P. Vary

The ensemble of light-cone Fock wavefunctions $\{\psi_{n/H}(x_i,\vec k_{\perp i},\lambda_i)\}$ provides a conceptual basis for representing physical hadrons and nuclei in terms of their fundamental quark and gluon degrees of freedom. A…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Stanley J. Brodsky

The parton distribution functions (PDFs) of heavy mesons are evaluated from their light-front wave functions, which are obtained from a basis light-front quantization in the leading Fock sector representation. We consider the mass…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-07-22 Jiangshan Lan , Chandan Mondal , Meijian Li , Yang Li , Shuo Tang , Xingbo Zhao , James P. Vary

We calculate the gravitational form factors (GFFs) and pressure, shear and energy distributions for a quark state dressed with a gluon at one loop in QCD. We use the light-front Hamiltonian approach. In the light-front gauge, we use a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-06 Jai More , Asmita Mukherjee , Sreeraj Nair , Sudeep Saha

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

Gravitational form factors (GFFs) of hadrons encode essential information about the internal distributions of mass, spin, pressure, and shear among their quark and gluon constituents. We compute the quark and gluon GFFs of the proton using…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-10 Sreeraj Nair , Chandan Mondal , Siqi Xu , Xingbo Zhao , James P. Vary

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 investigate the internal structure of the pion, including the contributions from one dynamical gluon, using the basis light-front quantization (BLFQ) approach. By solving a light-front QCD Hamiltonian with a three-dimensional confining…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-29 Jiangshan Lan , Kaiyu Fu , Satvir Kaur , Zhimin Zhu , Chandan Mondal , Xingbo Zhao , 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 investigate the properties of octet and decuplet baryons in a light-front holographic model. By taking into account the effect of nonvanishing quark mass, we obtain the modified light-front wave functions which are applicable at both low…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-11-18 Tianbo Liu , Bo-Qiang Ma

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 superconformal algebraic approach to hadronic physics is used to construct a semiclassical effective theory for nucleons which incorporates essential nonperturbative dynamical features, such as the emergence of a confining scale and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-20 Guy F. de Teramond