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

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Bernard Bakker            
Co-Chairman      
Vrije Universiteit  
Amsterdam, The Netherlands 

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Jean-François Mathiot                           
Chairman                                                                     
Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire                        
Clermont-Ferrand, France     
                                    
mathiot@in2p3.fr                                              mailto:mathiot@in2p3.frshapeimage_7_link_0