Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
1999-11-16
Eur.Phys.J.direct C7 (1999) 1
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
112 pages; 12 tables; 35 embedded figures as PS/EPS files; RevTex styles used. Article based on thesis for Dr. nauk (sci.) phy
Scientific paper
The modern formulation of exclusive reactions within Quantum Chromodynamics is reviewed, the emphasis being placed on the pivotal ideas and methods pertaining to perturbative and non-perturbative topics. Specific problems, related to scale locality, infrared safety, gluonic radiative corrections (Sudakov effects), and the role of hadronic size effects (intrinsic transverse momentum), are studied. These issues are more precisely analyzed in terms of the essential mechanisms of momentum transfer to a hadron while remaining intact. Different factorization schemes are considered and the conceptual lacunas are pointed out. The quite technical subject of renormalization-group evolution is given a detailed account. By combining analytical and numerical algorithms, the one-gluon exchange nucleon evolution equation is diagonalized and next-to-leading eigenfunctions are calculated in terms of Appell polynomials. The corresponding anomalous dimensions of trilinear quark operators are found to form a degenerate system whose envelope shows logarithmic large-order behavior. Selected applications of this framework are presented, focusing on the helicity-conserving elastic form factors of the pion and the nucleon. The theoretical constraints imposed by QCD sum rules on the moments of nucleon distribution amplitudes are used to determine a whole spectrum of optional solutions. They organize themselves along an ``orbit'' characterized by a striking scaling relation between the form-factor ratio $R=|G_{\rm M}^{\rm n}|/G_{\rm M}^{\rm p}$ and the projection coefficient $B_{4}$ on to the corresponding eigensolution. The main reasons for the failure of the present theoretical predictions to match the experimental data are discussed and workable explanations are sketched.
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