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Light-Front QCD in Light-Cone Gauge

Description

The light-front (LF) quantization [1] of QCD in light-cone (l.c.) gauge is discussed. The Dirac method is employed to construct the LF Hamiltonian and theory quantized canonically. The Dyson-Wick perturbation theory expansion based on LF-time ordering is constructed. The framework incorporates in it simultaneously the Lorentz gauge condition as an operator equation as well. The propagator of the dynamical psi+ part of the free fermionic propagator is shown to be causal while the gauge field propagator is found to be transverse. The interaction Hamiltonian is re-expressed in the form closely resembling the one in covariant theory, except for additional instantaneous interactions, which can be treated systematically. Some explicit computations in QCD are given

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Available from PURL: https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/764989-l1GMNJ/native/

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Publishing Information

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190 Kilobytes
Report number
SLAC-PUB--8591

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Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
32032711
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Non-conventional Literature
Descriptors DEI
FERMIONS; HAMILTONIANS; LIGHT CONE; PERTURBATION THEORY; PROPAGATOR; QUANTIZATION; QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS
Descriptors DEC
FIELD THEORIES; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; QUANTUM OPERATORS; SPACE-TIME

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Contract/Grant/Project number
AC03-76SF00515
Notes
This record replaces 31057324
Funding organization
USDOE Office of Energy Research (ER) (United States)