Abstract
I discuss a number of novel tests of QCD, measurements which can illuminate fundamental features of hadron physics. These include the origin of the “ridge” in proton-proton collisions; the production of the Higgs at high [Formula: see text]; the role of digluon-initiated processes for quarkonium production; flavor-dependent anti-shadowing; the effect of nuclear shadowing on QCD sum rules; direct production of hadrons at high transverse momentum; and leading-twist lensing corrections; and the breakdown of perturbative QCD factorization. I also review the “Principle of Maximum Conformalit” (PMC) which systematically sets the renormalization scale order-by-order in pQCD, independent of the choice of renormalization scheme, thus eliminating an unnecessary theoretical uncertainty.
Highlights
I will discuss a number of physics topics which test novel aspects of QCD and, in some cases, confront conventional wisdom
The entire Regge spectrum of light-quark mesons and baryons in n, L, and S is well reproduced by the eigenvalues of a frame-independent light-front Shrodinger and Dirac equations with a confining quark-diquark potential dictated by the softwall AdS/QCD approach and light-front holography.[15,16,17]
The factorization picture derived from pQCD has played a guiding role in virtually all aspects of hadron physics phenomenology
Summary
I will discuss a number of physics topics which test novel aspects of QCD and, in some cases, confront conventional wisdom. I will review applications of the Principle of Maximum Conformality (PMC) which provides a systematic and unambiguous way to set the renormalization scale. This is an Open Access article published by World Scientific Publishing Company. The sensitivity of measurements to physics beyond the Standard Model is greatly increased
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