The matrix elements of electroweak currents which occur in exclusive decays of heavy hadrons are evaluated in the nonperturbative light-cone Fock representration. In general, each semileptonic exclusive decay amplitude receives two contributions, a diagonal ∆n = 0 parton-number-conserving amplitude and a ∆n = −2 contribution in which a quark and an antiquark from the initial hadron Fock state a...

In this series of lectures, I shall begin with the current investigations on phenomenology of hadron dynamics to demonstrate the importance of solving hadronic bound states within the framework of light-front (LF) QCD. Then, I will describe the basic procedure how to formulate the canonical theory of LFQCD, including lightfront quantization of QCD, light-front gauge singularity, and light-front...

A new version of the Monte Carlo event generator Dpmjet is presented. It is a code system based on the Dual Parton Model and unifies all features of the Dtunuc-2, Dpmjet-II and Phojet1.12 event generators. Dpmjet-III allows the simulation of hadron-hadron, hadron-nucleus, nucleus-nucleus, photon-hadron, photonphoton and photon-nucleus interactions from a few GeV up to the highest cosmic ray ene...

The high energy limit of QCD is controlled by the small-x part of a hadron wavefunction. We argue that this part is universal to all hadrons and is composed of a new form of matter: a Colored Glass Condensate. This matter is weakly interacting at very small x, but is nonperturbative because of the highly occupied boson states which compose the condensate. Such a matter might be studied in high ...

Quark-hadron duality addresses some of the most fundamental issues in strong interaction physics, in particular the nature of the transition from the perturbative to non-perturbative regions of QCD. I summarize recent developments in quark-hadron duality in lepton–hadron scattering, and outline how duality can be studied at future high-luminosity facilities such as Jefferson Lab at 12 GeV or an...

It is shown that the euclidean origin of the instanton leads to the appearence of a large imaginary part in some diagrams for hadron production in quark-quark scattering. This phenomenon and instanton–induced quark spin-flip give the fundamental QCD mechanism for the observed large single-spin asymmetries in hadron-hadron and lepton-hadron interactions. 1 Talk presented at the Workshop ”Polariz...

In this talk we review the models describing the hard diffractive production of jets or more generally high-mass states in presence of rapidity gaps in hadron-hadron and lepton-hadron collisions. By rapidity gaps we mean regions on the lego plot in (pseudo)-rapidity and azimuthal angle where no hadrons are produced, between the jet(s) and an elastically scattered hadron (single hard diffraction...