Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Experiment
Scientific paper
2011-09-29
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Experiment
8 pages, 6 figures; proceedings of the 2011 DPF meeting
Scientific paper
We present several recent results from the BaBar collaboration in the areas of initial state radiation physics and transition form factors. An updated study of the processes e+e- -> K+K-pi+pi- and e+e- -> K+K-pi0pi0 provides an improved understanding of the Y(2175) meson. A very precise study of the process e+e- -> pi+pi- improves the precision on the calculated anomalous magnetic moment of the muon and provides by far the best information on excited rho states. Our previous measurements of the timelike transition form factors (TFF) of the eta and eta' mesons at Q^2=112 GeV^2, combined with new measurements of the their spacelike TFFs and those of the pi0 and eta_c mesons, provide powerful tests of QCD and models of the distribution amplitudes of quarks inside these mesons. The eta_c TFF shows the expected behavior over the Q^2 range 1-50 GeV^2, and we are sensitive to next-to-leading-order QCD corrections. The eta and eta' TFFs are consistent with expected behavior, but those for the pi0 are not. Extracting the strange and nonstrange components of the eta and eta' TFFs, we find the nonstrange component to be consistent with theoretical expectations and inconsistent with the measured pi0 TFF.
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