Quarkonia in Hamiltonian Light-Front QCD

Abstract

A constituent parton picture of hadrons with logarithmic confinement naturally arises in weak coupling light-front QCD. Confinement provides a mass gap that allows the constituent picture to emerge. The effective renormalized Hamiltonian is computed to ${\cal O}(g^2)$, and used to study charmonium and bottomonium. Radial and angular excitations can be used to fix the coupling $α$, the quark mass $M$, and the cutoff $Λ$. The resultant hyperfine structure is very close to experiment.