Effects of massive gluons on quarkonia in light-front QCD

A constituent parton picture of hadrons with logarithmic confinement arises naturally in light-front QCD when the hamiltonian is computed using a perturbative renormalization group; however, rotational symmetry is not manifest as a simple kinematic symmetry. Relevant operators must typically be fine-tuned when a perturbative renormalization group is used, and in light-front field theory such operators contain functions of longitudinal moments. We explore the possibility that a gluon mass operator with simple longitudinal momentum dependence may improve approximate kinematic rotational symmetry, as revealed by the potential between heavy quarks. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V.