"Probing the Deuteron at Short Distances on the Light-Front"

We study electro-disintegration of the deuteron at high momentum transfer aimed at studies of the deuteron at short-distances. Such studies are relevant for number of phenomena related to a high density nuclear matter, relativistic NN-interaction and nuclei structure at short distances. Due to relativistic nature of the process, the theoretical framework is based on light-front approach which allows a complete relativistic treatment of all components of the reaction, such as deuteron wave function, bound nucleon electromagnetic current as well as final state interaction of fast struck nucleon with the spectator nucleon. The main advantage of the approach is that it allows effectively to account for the vacuum fluctuation contributions which are essential for processes that probe deuteron with large relative momentum. We compare our calculations with the prediction of non-relativistic calculation as well as provide a preliminary comparisons with the experimental data being measured at Jefferson Lab.