1997/06/03 by Stanley J. Brodsky, Brodsky, Stanley J.
Physics and Astronomy · #Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9706236
LaTex, 10 pages
arxiv created 1997/06/03 · openalex publication_date 1997/06/03 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The ensemble of light-cone Fock wavefunctions \ψn/H(xi, k⊥ i,λi)\ provides a conceptual basis for representing physical hadrons and nuclei in terms of their fundamental quark and gluon degrees of freedom. A number of applications of the light-cone formalism to QCD phenomenology are briefly reviewed, such as the origin of Regge behavior of polarized structure functions, the high momentum transfer behavior of exclusive reactions, the color transparency properties of diffractive vector meson photoproduction, and the behavior of quark distributions at large xbj. The light-cone formalism illuminates novel features of hadron physics, such as the intrinsic gluon and heavy quark distributions, the quark - antiquark asymmetry of the intrinsic heavy quark sea, and the importance of rearrangement mechanisms in heavy quarkonium decay. I also discuss the potential for measuring the shape of the valence light-cone Fock wavefunction of hadrons and photons in nuclear diffractive multi-jet production.