Hadron Physics From Superconformal Quantum Mechanics and its Light-Front Holographic Embedding

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The complex nonperturbative color-confining dynamics of QCD is well captured in a semiclassical effective theory based on superconformal quantum mechanics and its extension to the light-front.

• I describe here how this new approach to hadron physics incorporates confinement, the appearance of nearly massless pseudoscalar particles, and Regge spectroscopy consistent with experiment.
• It also gives remarkable connections between the meson and baryon spectrum across the light and heavy-light hadron spectrum.
• I also briefly discuss how higher spin states are consistently described in this framework by the holographic embedding of the superconformal theory in a higher dimensional semiclassical gravity theory.