Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2004-09-15
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
6 pages, no figures, invited talk at Light-Cone 2004 workshop, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, August 16-20, 2004
Scientific paper
10.1007/s00601-004-0106-7
The formulation of statistical physics using light-front quantization, instead of conventional equal-time boundary conditions, has important advantages for describing relativistic statistical systems, such as heavy ion collisions. We develop light-front field theory at finite temperature and density with special attention to quantum chromodynamics. First, we construct the most general form of the statistical operator allowed by the Poincare algebra. In light-front quantization, the Green's functions of a quark in a medium can be defined in terms of just 2-component spinors and does not lead to doublers in the transverse directions. Since the theory is non-local along the light cone, we use causality arguments to construct a solution to the related zero-mode problem. A seminal property of light-front Green's functions is that they are related to parton densities in coordinate space. Namely, the diagonal and off-diagonal parton distributions measured in hard scattering experiments can be interpreted as light-front density matrices.
Brodsky Stanley J.
Raufeisen J.
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