A Combined Study of the Pion’s Static Properties and form Factors
A Combined Study of the Pion’s Static Properties and form Factors
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DOI:
10.1007/s00601-013-0682-5
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发表时间:
2013-03
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影响因子:
1.6
通讯作者:
B. El-Bennich;J. de Melo;T. Frederico
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作者:
B. El-Bennich;J. de Melo;T. Frederico
We study consistently the pion’s static observables and the elastic andγ*γ→π0transition form factors within a light-front model. Consistency requires that all calculations are performed within a given model with the same and single adjusted length or mass-scale parameter of the associated pion bound-state wave function. Our results agree well with all extent data including recent Belle data on theγ*γ→π0form factor at largeq2, yet the BaBar data on this transition form factor resists a sensible comparison. We relax the initial constraint on the bound-state wave function and show the BaBar data can partially be accommodated. This, however, comes at the cost of a hard elastic form factor not in agreement with experiment. Moreover, the pion charge radius is about 40 % smaller than its experimentally determined value. It is argued that a decreasing charge radius produces an ever harder form factor with a bound-state amplitude difficultly reconcilable with soft QCD. We also discuss why vector dominance type models for the photon-quark vertex, based on analyticity and crossing symmetry, are unlikely to reproduce the litigious transition form factor data.