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On the Size of Hadrons
The form factor and the mean-square radius of the pion are calculated
analytically from a parametrized form of a wave function. The
numerical wave function was obtained previously by solving numerically an
eigenvalue equation for the pion in a particular model. The analytical formulas
are of more general interest than just be valid for the pion and can be
generalized to the case with unequal quark masses. Two different
parametrizations are investigated. Because of the highly relativistic problem,
noticable deviations from a non-relativistic formula are obtained.Comment: 14 pages, minor typos corrected, several points clarified, results
unchange
Tube Model for Light-Front QCD
We propose the tube model as a first step in solving the bound state problem
in light-front QCD. In this approach we neglect transverse variations of the
fields, producing a model with 1+1 dimensional dynamics. We then solve the two,
three, and four particle sectors of the model for the case of pure glue SU(3).
We study convergence to the continuum limit and various properties of the
spectrum.Comment: 29 page
Towards Solving QCD in Light-Cone Quantization -- On the Spectrum of the Transverse Zero Modes for SU(2)
The formalism for a non-abelian pure gauge theory in (2+1) dimensions has
recently been derived within Discretized Light-Cone Quantization, restricting
to the lowest {\it transverse} momentum gluons. It is argued why this model can
be a paradigm for full QCD. The physical vacuum becomes non-trivial even in
light-cone quantization. The approach is brought here to tractable form by
suppressing by hand both the dynamical gauge and the constraint zero mode, and
by performing a Tamm-Dancoff type Fock-space truncation. Within that model the
Hamiltonian is diagonalized numerically, yielding mass spectra and
wavefunctions of the glue-ball states. We find that only color singlets have a
stable and discrete bound state spectrum. The connection with confinement is
discussed. The structure function of the gluons has a shape like . The existence of the continuum limit is verified by deriving a
coupled set of integral equations.Comment: 1 Latex file & 9 Postscript files; tarred, compressed and uuencode
Finiteness Conditions for Light-Front Hamiltonians
In the context of simple models, it is shown that demanding finiteness for
physical masses with respect to a longitudinal cutoff, can be used to fix the
ambiguity in the renormalization of fermions masses in the Hamiltonian
light-front formulation. Difficulties that arise in applications of finiteness
conditions to discrete light-cone quantization are discussed.Comment: REVTEX, 9 page
The QCD string and the generalised wave equation
The equation for QCD string proposed earlier is reviewed. This equation
appears when we examine the gonihedric string model and the corresponding
transfer matrix. Arguing that string equation should have a generalized Dirac
form we found the corresponding infinite-dimensional gamma matrices as a
symmetric solution of the Majorana commutation relations. The generalized gamma
matrices are anticommuting and guarantee unitarity of the theory at all orders
of . In the second quantized form the equation does not have unwanted
ghost states in Fock space. In the absence of Casimir mass terms the spectrum
reminds hydrogen exitations. On every mass level there are different
charged particles with spin running from up to , and the
degeneracy is equal to . This is in contrast with the
exponential degeneracy in superstring theory.Comment: 11 pages LaTeX, uses lamuphys.sty and bibnorm.sty,; Based on talks
given at the 6th Hellenic School and Workshop on Elementary Particle Physics,
Corfu, Greece, September 19-26, 1998 and at the International Workshop
"ISMP", Tbilisi, Georgia, September 12-18, 199
The Influence of Higher Fock States in Light-Cone Gauge Theories
In the light-cone Fock state expansion of gauge theories, the influence of
non-valence states may be significant in precision non-perturbative
calculations. In two-dimensional gauge theories, it is shown how these states
modify the behaviour of the light-cone wavefunction in significant ways
relative to endemic choices of variational ansatz. Similar effects in
four-dimensional gauge theories are briefly discussed.Comment: 4 pages, REVTE
Note on the Relativistic Thermodynamics of Moving Bodies
We employ a novel thermodynamical argument to show that, at the macroscopic
level,there is no intrinsic law of temperature transformation under Lorentz
boosts. This result extends the corresponding microstatistical one of earlier
works to the purely macroscopic regime and signifies that the concept of
temperature as an objective entity is restricted to the description of bodies
in their rest frames. The argument on which this result is based is centred on
the thermal transactions between a body that moves with uniform velocity
relative to a certain inertial frame and a thermometer, designed to measure its
temperature, that is held at rest in that frame.Comment: To be published in J. Phys. A. A few minor corrections have been made
to the earlier version of this articl
A Deformation Quantization Theory for Non-Commutative Quantum Mechanics
We show that the deformation quantization of non-commutative quantum
mechanics previously considered by Dias and Prata can be expressed as a Weyl
calculus on a double phase space. We study the properties of the star-product
thus defined, and prove a spectral theorem for the star-genvalue equation using
an extension of the methods recently initiated by de Gosson and Luef.Comment: Submitted for publicatio
Casimir repulsion in moving media
Casimir-Lifshitz interaction emerging from relative movement of layers in
stratified dielectric media (e.g., non-uniformly moving fluids) is considered.
It is shown that such movement may result in a repulsive Casimir-Lifshitz force
exerted on the layers, with the simplest possible structure consisting of three
adjacent layers of the same dielectric medium, where the middle one is
stationary and the other two are sliding along a direction parallel to the
interfaces of the layers.Comment: 22 pages, 10 figure
Masses of the physical mesons from an effective QCD--Hamiltonian
The front form Hamiltonian for quantum chromodynamics, reduced to an
effective Hamiltonian acting only in the space, is solved
approximately. After coordinate transformation to usual momentum space and
Fourier transformation to configuration space a second order differential
equation is derived. This retarded Schr\"odinger equation is solved by
variational methods and semi-analytical expressions for the masses of all 30
pseudoscalar and vector mesons are derived. In view of the direct relation to
quantum chromdynamics without free parameter, the agreement with experiment is
remarkable, but the approximation scheme is not adequate for the mesons with
one up or down quark. The crucial point is the use of a running coupling
constant , in a manner similar but not equal to the one of
Richardson in the equal usual-time quantization. Its value is fixed at the Z
mass and the 5 flavor quark masses are determined by a fit to the vector meson
quarkonia.Comment: 18 pages, 4 Postscript figure
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