Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
1998-09-03
Int.J.Mod.Phys. A14 (1999) 161-194
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
RevTeX, 37 pages, 7 eps figures, submitted to Int. J. Mod. Phys. A
Scientific paper
10.1142/S0217751X99000087
We point out the problems affecting most quark--antiquark bound state approaches when they are faced with the electromagnetic processes dominated by Abelian axial anomaly. However, these problems are resolved in the consistently coupled Schwinger-Dyson and Bethe-Salpeter approach. Using one of the most successful variants of this approach, we find the dynamically dressed propagators of the light u and d quarks, as well as the heavy c and b quarks, and find the Bethe-Salpeter amplitudes for their bound states pi0, eta_c and \eta_b. Thanks to incorporating the dynamical chiral symmetry breaking, the pion simultaneously appears as the (pseudo)Goldstone boson. We give the theoretical predictions for the gamma-gamma decay widths of pi0, eta_c and eta_b, and for the pi0 gamma* -> gamma transition form factor, and compare them with experiment. In the chiral limit, the axial-anomaly result for pi0->gamma-gamma is reproduced analytically in the consistently coupled Schwinger-Dyson and Bethe-Salpeter approach, provided that the quark-photon vertex is dressed consistently with the quark propagator, so that the vector Ward-Takahashi identity of QED is obeyed. On the other hand, the present approach is also capable of quantitatively describing systems of heavy quarks, concretely eta_c and possibly eta_b, and their gamma-gamma decays. We discuss the reasons for the broad phenomenological success of the bound-state approach of Jain and Munczek.
Bistrovic Bojan
Kekez Dalibor
Klabucar Dubravko
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