Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2000-09-06
Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl. 90 (2000) 87-90
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
LATEX, 6 pages. To appear in Proceedings of HD 2000, From Hadrons to Strings
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0920-5632(00)00878-1
It may be possible to approximate the full pion wave function in light-front QCD using only $q \qbar$ and $q \qbar g$ Fock space components. Removing zero modes and using invariant-mass cutoffs that make a constituent approximation possible leads to non-canonical terms in the QCD hamiltonian, and forces us to work in the broken symmetry phase of QCD in which chiral symmetry breaking operators must appear directly in the hamiltonian because the vacuum is trivial. Assuming any candidate interactions are local in the transverse direction, I argue that they are probably relevant operators so that perturbation theory is not modified at high energies. Since light-front chiral symmetry corresponds to quark helicity conservation, we can readily identify candidate chiral symmetry breaking interactions. The only candidate relevant operator is the quark-gluon emission/absorption operator with a quark spin flip. I argue that this operator can only produce the physical $\pi-\rho$ mass splitting if the $q \qbar g$ component of the pion is significant.
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