Extending light-front holographic QCD using the 't Hooft Equation

Abstract We show the 't Hooft Equation and the light-front holographic Schrodinger Equation are complementary to each other in governing the transverse and longitudinal dynamics of colour confinement in quark-antiquark mesons. Together, they predict remarkably well the light, heavy-light and heavy-heavy meson spectroscopic data. The universal emerging hadronic scale of light-front holography, κ ≈ 0.5 GeV, controls the transverse dynamics of confinement in all these mesons. In heavy-heavy mesons, it also coincides numerically with the 't Hooft coupling which governs longitudinal confinement, thus reflecting the restoration of manifest 3-dimensional rotational symmetry.