Accuracy of the pion elastic form factor extracted from a local-duality sum rule

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2011-03-19

arxiv.org/abs/1103.3781v3

J. Phys. G39: 055007, 2012

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

12 pages, extended version, conclusions remain unchanged

Scientific paper

10.1088/0954-3899/39/5/055007

We analyze the accuracy of the pion elastic form factor predicted by a local-duality (LD) version of dispersive sum rules. To probe the precision of this theoretical approach, we adopt potential models with interactions that involve both Coulomb and confining terms. In this case, the exact form factor may be obtained from the solution of the Schroedinger equation and confronted with the LD sum rule results. We use parameter values appropriate for hadron physics and observe that, independently of the details of the confining interaction, the deviation of the LD form factor from the exact form factor culminates in the region Q^2~4-6 GeV^2. For larger Q^2, the accuracy of the LD description increases rather fast with Q^2. A similar picture is expected for QCD. For the pion form factor, existing data suggest that the LD limit may be reached already at the relatively low values Q^2=4-10 GeV^2. Thus, large deviations of the pion form factor from the behaviour predicted by LD QCD sum rules for higher values of Q^2, as found by some recent analyses, appear to us quite improbable. New accurate data on the pion form factor at Q^2=4-10 GeV^2 expected soon from JLab will have important implications for the behaviour of the pion form factor in a broad Q^2 range up to asymptotically large values of Q^2.

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