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15 papers

hep-ph2026

Faddeev description of baryons in two-dimensional QCD with . I. Chiral spectrum, isospin, and strangeness

Ismail Zahed, Haocheng Zhang

We develop a light-front Faddeev description of baryons in two-dimensional QCD at , in which an exact coupled-channel representation identifies the quark--diquark picture as…

hep-ph2026

Experimental access to the gluonic origin of the proton mass

Zein-Eddine Meziani, Ismail Zahed

Most of the proton mass originates not from the Higgs mechanism but from the quantum structure of the QCD vacuum. The dominant contribution arises from the gluonic trace anomaly as…

hep-ph2026

Anomalies, Topology, and Hadron Structure in QCD

Ismail Zahed

Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) provides a remarkable realization of how quantum effects reshape the symmetries of a classical field theory. The axial anomaly links chirality to gauge…

hep-ph2026

Hybrid hadrons at rest and on the light front

Edward Shuryak, Ismail Zahed

We present a unified description of heavy hybrid hadrons based on a constituent-gluon picture embedded in the Born-Oppenheimer (BO) framework. In this approach, the gluonic excitat…

hep-ph2026

Chiral Structure and Selection Rules in Light-Front Nucleon-Pentaquark Mixing

Fangcheng He, Edward Shuryak, Wan Wu +1

We present a light-front Hamiltonian analysis of nucleon-pentaquark mixing induced by - and -type transition operators in a fully Pauli-consistent five-quark basis. The pen…

hep-ph2026

The color force acting on a quark in the pion and nucleon

Wei-Yang Liu, Edward Shuryak, Ismail Zahed

In the Operator Product Expansion (OPE) of hard scattering amplitudes, the twist-3 operators describe local colored Lorentz forces acting on a quark, thereby providing a measure of…