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Publications and source records attributed to J. P. B. C. de Melo.
The bound state of constituent quarks forming a $Qqq$ composite baryon is investigated in a QCD-inspired effective light-front model. The light-front Faddeev equations are derived and solved numerically. The masses of the spin 1/2 low-lying states of the nucleon, $Λ^0$, $Λ^+_c$ and $Λ^0_b$ are found and compared to the experimental data. The data is qualitatively described with a flavor independent effective interaction.
The constituent quark rho meson electromagnetic form-factors are calculated, with covariant and null-plane approaches with the same model. The null-plane formalism produces the breakdown of the rotational symmetry for the one-body current operador, wich is investigated by comparing the numerical results in both approaches. This allows to choose the appropriate null-plane prescriptio, among the several ones, to evaluate the rho meson form-factors.
The lower bound masses of the ground-state relativistic three-boson system in 1+1, 2+1 and 3+1 space-time dimensions are obtained. We have considered a reduction of the ladder Bethe-Salpeter equation to the light-front in a model with renormalized two-body contact interaction. The lower bounds are deduced with the constraint of reality of the two-boson subsystem mass. It is verified that, in some cases, the lower bound approaches the ground state binding energy. The corresponding non-relativistic limits are also verified.
The electromagnetic form factor of the pion is calculated in a pseudoscalar field theoretical model which constituent quarks. We extract the form factor using the "+" component of the electromagnetic current in the light-cone formalism. For comparison, we also compute the form factor in the covariant framework and we obtain perfect agreement. It is shown that the pair terms do not contribute in this pseudoscalar model. This explains why a naive light-cone calculation, i.e., omitting pair terms from the onset, also yields the same results.