2000/04/24 by Stanley J. Brodsky, Brodsky, Stanley J.
Chemistry · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced NMR Techniques and Applications #Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/0004211
12 pages. Presented at the Workshop on Light-Cone QCD and Nonperturbative Hadron Physics at the University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia, December 13--December 22, 1999
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The light-cone Fock-state representation of QCD encodes the properties of a hadrons in terms of frame-independent wavefunctions. A new type of jet production reaction, "self-resolving diffractive interactions" can provide direct information on the light-cone wavefunctions of hadrons in terms of their quark and gluon degrees of freedom as well as the composition of nuclei in terms of their nucleon and mesonic degrees of freedom. The relation of the intrinsic sea to the light-cone wavefunctions is discussed. The decomposition of light-cone spin is illustrated for the quantum fluctuations of an electron.