Meson Transition Form Factors in Light-Front Holographic QCD

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2011-05-19

arxiv.org/abs/1105.3999v4

Phys. Rev. D84 (2011) 075012

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

37 pages, 7 figures; matches the version published in PRD: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.84.075012

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.84.075012

We study the photon-to-meson transition form factors (TFFs) F_{M \gamma}(Q^2) for gamma gamma^* \to M using light-front holographic methods. The Chern-Simons action, which is a natural form in 5-dimensional anti-de Sitter (AdS) space, leads directly to an expression for the photon-to-pion TFF for a class of confining models. Remarkably, the predicted pion TFF is identical to the leading order QCD result where the distribution amplitude has asymptotic form. The Chern-Simons form is local in AdS space and is thus somewhat limited in its predictability. It only retains the q \bar q component of the pion wavefunction, and further, it projects out only the asymptotic form of the meson distribution amplitude. It is found that in order to describe simultaneously the decay process \pi^0 \rightarrow gamma gamma and the pion TFF at the asymptotic limit, a probability for the q \bar q component of the pion wavefunction P_{q \bar q}=0.5 is required; thus giving indication that the contributions from higher Fock states in the pion light-front wavefunction need to be included in the analysis. The probability for the Fock state containing four quarks (anti-quarks) which follows from analyzing the hadron matrix elements, P_{q \bar q q \bar q} \sim 10 %, agrees with the analysis of the pion elastic form factor using light-front holography including higher Fock components in the pion wavefunction. The results for the TFFs for the eta and eta^\prime mesons are also presented. The rapid growth of the pion TFF exhibited by the BaBar data at high Q^2 is not compatible with the models discussed in this article, whereas the theoretical calculations are in agreement with the experimental data for the eta and eta^\prime TFFs.

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