Light Front Hamiltonian for Transverse Lattice QCD

Abstract

A calculational framework for determining masses of low lying hadrons using light front quantization is discussed. The method is based upon four theoretical tools: discrete light cone quantization, which has been very successful in 1+1 dimensional models, a projector Monte Carlo method to extract low lying state data with 2 additional transverse dimensions, the transverse spatial lattice Hamiltonian of QCD, and exact form factors of the SU(3) x SU(3) 1+1 dimensional non-linear sigma model (NLSM). How these tools are to be put together to provide a description of hadrons is the main topic of this lecture. I also focus on the NLSM form factors, which are given new physical relevance via this picture of QCD. (Based on a lecture given at the ``Theory of Hadrons and Light-front QCD'' workshop in Zakopane, Poland, August 1994.)