LIGHT CONE 2008

Relativistic Nuclear and Particle Physics

European Physical Society Mulhouse, France July 7 - 11, 2008 Light Cone Dynamics is a general Hamiltonian framework well suited to describe relativistic bound state systems - among them hadrons and nuclei - and their interactions, starting from first principles in Quantum Chromodynamics. The various questions relevant to reach this ambitious goal are discussed in a series of regular workshops held each year under the supervision of the International Light Cone Advisory Committee (ILCAC). The main goals of research in this domain are : • The rigorous evaluation of masses and wave functions of hadrons and nuclei • Hadronic and nuclear phenomenology based on fundamental quark and gluon dynamics • Confront and design crucial experimental tests at the new hadron facilities - JLAB, RHIC, LHC, JPARC, GSI Challenges to reach these goals are common to many other fields : • Symmetry preserving regularization and renormalization methods • The incorporation of spontaneous symmetry breaking • Explicit evaluation of hadron spectra and amplitudes • Connections with string theory methods • Connections between quark-gluon and nuclear many-body methodshttp://www.slac.stanford.edu/xorg/ilcac/shapeimage_2_link_0
Markus Diehl Co-Chairman DESY Hamburg, Germany mdiehl@mail.desy.demailto:mdiehl@mail.desy.de?subject=shapeimage_4_link_0
Bernard Bakker Co-Chairman Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands blg.bakker@few.vu.nlmailto:blg.bakker@few.vu.nl?subject=shapeimage_6_link_0
Jean-François Mathiot Chairman Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire Clermont-Ferrand, France mathiot@in2p3.fr mailto:mathiot@in2p3.frshapeimage_7_link_0