Light-front-quantized QCD in the light-cone gauge: The doubly transverse gauge propagator

Physical Review D

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2001, Pages

  Srivastava, Prem P ^a   Brodsky, Stanley J ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHEMICAL REACTION; LIGHT; SPECTRUM; SURFACE PROPERTY; THEORY;

EID: 0035881287     PISSN: 05562821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.64.045006     Document Type: Article

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