International PhD studies at the Faculty of Physics University of Warsaw

Subject of thesis: Hadron light-front wave functions based on AdS/QCD duality,

Supervised by prof. Stanisław D. Głazek, University of Warsaw

Outline of the project: Structure and interaction of hadrons are known at the probability level. A deeper understanding at the level of amplitude is required for conceptually clear and quantitatively precise description of processes that involve hadrons, such as collisions of protons or their interaction with electrons and photons. This project aims at construction of the renormalized wave functions of hadrons using insights from AdS/QCD duality and light-front holography. Since cross-sections in processes that involve hadrons can be expressed in terms of their generalized parton distributions and form factors, the graduate student would be expected to compute the relevant observables using the derived wave functions. Two main results provide foundation for this project. The general theoretical framework in the study will be the similarity renormalization group procedure for Hamiltonians that was originally formulated by Głazek and Wilson and subsequently developed by Głazek and his students in the University of Warsaw in application to QCD. This framework is a natural candidate for incorporating the vast amount of information from the phenomenology of hadronic wave functions developed by Brodsky and his collaborators, based on the development of AdS/QCD correspondence and light-front holography.

Stays abroad: SLAC, at least 6 months, likely extension to 12 months.

Foreign partner: Prof. S. J. Brodsky, SLAC, Stanford University, California, USA