Hadron Physics From Superconformal Quantum Mechanics and its Light-Front Holographic Embedding

TL;DR

This paper presents a semiclassical approach based on superconformal quantum mechanics and light-front holography to model nonperturbative QCD phenomena, successfully capturing confinement, hadron spectra, and connections between mesons and baryons.

Contribution

It introduces a novel framework combining superconformal quantum mechanics with light-front holography to describe hadron physics and spectrum patterns.

Findings

Reproduces confinement and Regge trajectories consistent with experiments.

Establishes connections between meson and baryon spectra.

Provides a holographic description of higher spin states.

Abstract

The complex nonperturbative color-confining dynamics of QCD is well captured in a semiclassical effective theory based on superconformal quantum mechanics and its extension to the light-front. I describe here how this new approach to hadron physics incorporates confinement, the appearance of nearly massless pseudoscalar particles, and Regge spectroscopy consistent with experiment. It also gives remarkable connections between the meson and baryon spectrum across the light and heavy-light hadron spectrum. I also briefly discuss how higher spin states are consistently described in this framework by the holographic embedding of the superconformal theory in a higher dimensional semiclassical gravity theory.