Recent Progress in Application of Light-Front Dynamics to Hadron Physics

Recent Progress in Application of Light-Front Dynamics to Hadron Physics

Light-front dynamics (LFD) plays an important role in hadron physics. It provides a unied framework to analyze various experimental observations, such as the generalized parton distribu- tions (GPDs) and single spin asymmetry (SSA) at Jefferson Laboratory (JLab) and Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), the B-decaysat Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) and High Energy Accelerator Research Organization(KEK), the quark gluon plasma productions in the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)at Brook haven National Laboratory (BNL) and A Large Ion Collider Experiment (ALICE)at European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), etc. More- over, recent development of the anti-de Sitter space geometry/conformal field theory (AdS/CFT) correspondence has a direct relation to the hadron wave functions in LFD. We will review the features of LFD that aredistinguished from other forms of relativistic Hamiltonian dynamics and discuss the recent progress in applying the LFD to various hadron physics.

Light-front dynamics (LFD) plays an important role in hadron physics. It provides a unied framework to analyze various experimental observations, such as the generalized parton distribu- tions (GPDs) and single spin asymmetry (SSA) at Jefferson Laboratory (JLab) and Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), the B-decaysat Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) and High Energy Accelerator Research Organization(KEK), the quark gluon plasma productions in the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)at Brook haven National Laboratory (BNL) and A Large Ion Collider Experiment (ALICE)at European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), etc. More- over, recent development of the anti-de Sitter space geometry/conformal field theory (AdS/CFT) correspondence has a direct relation to the hadron wave functions in LFD. We will review the features of LFD that aredistinguished from other forms of relativistic Hamiltonian dynamics and discuss the recent progress in applying the LFD to various hadron physics.