Jun 22 – 26, 2026
Stony Brook University/Online
America/New_York timezone

Reappraising Light Front Densities

Jun 22, 2026, 4:15 PM
30m
CFNS, Peter Paul Seminar Room, C 120 Physics Building (Stony Brook University/Online)

CFNS, Peter Paul Seminar Room, C 120 Physics Building

Stony Brook University/Online

Light-Front Wave Functions and Hadron Structure Light-Front Wave Functions and Hadron Structure

Speaker

Adam Freese (Jefferson Lab)

Description

Light front densities have long been promoted as constituting true internal hadron densities. A big selling point is that light front uniquely permits transverse localization and a clean separation between the barycentric and internal degrees of freedom many-body systems, both of which follow from the light front's realization of the Poincaré group's Galilean subgroup. Rather than eliminating relativistic effects, the Galilean subgroup shuffles them into the longitudinal direction, ultimately introducing distortions into the light front densities. In this talk, I show that light front current and EMT densities inevitably retain artifacts of the barycentric wave packet.

Author

Adam Freese (Jefferson Lab)

Presentation materials