INFINITE NUCLEAR MATTER ON THE LIGHT FRONT: A MODERN APPROACH TO BRUECKNER THEORY
Understanding an important class of experiments requires that light-front dynamics and the related light cone variables k+, k⊥ be used. If one uses k+=k0+k3 as a momentum variable the corresponding canonical spatial variable is x-=x0-x3 and the time variable is x0+x3. This is the light front (LF) approach of Dirac. A relativistic light front formulation of nuclear dynamics is developed and applied to treating infinite nuclear matter in a method which includes the correlations of pairs of nucleons. This is light front Brueckner theory.