Scientific Goals of the Project The project will deal with an unresolved problem of the standard model of particle interactions: vacuum structure of nonabelian gauge theories in general, and quantum chromodynamics in particular. It is related to nonperturbative phenomena in particle physics: confinement, chiral symmetry breaking, properties of hadron spectra. Two methods will be utilized: numerical simulations of lattice QCD and investigation of gauge models in light front variables. Problems include: wave functionals of ground and lowest excited states of QCD, links between confinement mechanisms and chiral symmetry breaking, relation of geometrical features of topological structures in the QCD vacuum to strong-interaction phenomena, Casimir scaling in G(2) gauge theory, and various conceptual and practical questions of quantum field theory on the light front and its relation to the usual formulation. Research topics are related to international cooperations of investigators. Results will be published in respected scientific journals.
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