A Transverse Lattice QCD Model for Mesons

Patel, Apoorva D and Ratabole, Raghunath (2003) A Transverse Lattice QCD Model for Mesons. [Preprint]

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Abstract

QCD is analysed with two light-front continuum dimensions and two transverse lattice dimensions. In the limit of large number of colours and strong transverse gauge coupling, the contributions of light-front and transverse directions factorise in the dynamics, and the theory can be analytically solved in a closed form. An integral equation is obtained, describing the properties of mesons, which generalises the 't Hooft equation by including spin degrees of freedom. The meson spectrum, light-front wavefunctions and form factors can be obtained by solving this equation numerically. These results would be a good starting point to model QCD observables which only weakly depend on transverse directions, e.g. deep inelastic scattering structure functions.

Item Type:	Preprint
Additional Information:	IISc-CTS-6/03
Department/Centre:	Division of Interdisciplinary Sciences > Supercomputer Education & Research Centre Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Centre for Theoretical Studies (Ceased to exist at the end of 2003)
Date Deposited:	25 Aug 2008
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 04:13
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/767

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