Novel Perspectives from Light-Front QCD, Super-Conformal Algebra, and Light-Front Holography [report]

Stanley J. Brodsky
2015 unpublished
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 are defined from the hadronic LFWFs. One obtains new insights into the hadronic mass scale, the hadronic spectrum, and the functional form of the QCD running coupling in the nonperturbative domain using light-front holography. In addition, superconformal algebra
more » ... eads to remarkable supersymmetric relations between mesons and baryons. I also discuss evidence that the antishadowing of nuclear structure functions is nonuniversal; i.e., flavor dependent, and why shadowing and antishadowing phenomena may be incompatible with the momentum and other sum rules for the nuclear parton distribution functions.
doi:10.2172/1228739 fatcat:keowblgybbadbpmdb7sgg7fn64