Heavy Quark Effective Theory on the Light Front

Abstract

The light-front heavy quark effective theory is derived to all orders in $1/m_Q$. In the limit $m_Q\to \infty$, the theory exhibits the familiar heavy quark spin-flavor symmetry. This new formalism permits a straightforward canonical quantization to all orders in $1/m_Q$; moreover, higher order terms have rather simple operator structures. The light-front heavy quark effective theory can serve as an useful framework for the study of non-perturbative QCD dynamics of heavy hadron bound states.

11 pages, revtex, no figures

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