Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
1996-03-26
Nucl.Phys.B481:625-680,1996
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
gziped, tar file of LaTeX paper plus 4 postscript figures, 53 pages
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0550-3213(96)00492-0
The transition gamma*(q_1)gamma*(q_2) -> \pi0(p) is studied within the QCD sum rule framework. As a first step, we analyze the kinematic situation when both photon virtualities are spacelike and large. We construct a QCD sum rule for F(q_1^2,q_2^2) and show that, in the asymptotic limit |q_1^2|, |q_2^2| \to \infty, it reproduces the leading-order pQCD result. Then we study the limit |q_1^2| -> 0, in which one of the photons is (almost) real. We develop a factorization procedure for the infrared singularities ln(q_1^2), 1/q_1^2,1/q_1^4,etc., emerging in this limit. The infrared-sensitive contributions are absorbed in this approach by bilocal correlators, which can be also interpreted as the distribution amplitudes for (almost) real photon. Under explicitly formulated assumptions concerning the form of these amplitudes, we obtain a QCD sum rule for F(q_1^2=0,q_2^2=-Q^2) and study its Q^2-dependence. In contrast to pQCD, we make no assumptions about the shape of the pion distribution amplitude varphi_{\pi}(x). Our results agree with the Brodsky-Lepage proposal that the Q^2-dependence of this form factor is given by an interpolation between its Q^2=0 value fixed by the axial anomaly and 1/Q^2 pQCD value dictated by the asymptotic form of the pion distribution amplitude. We interpret this as an evidence that the latter is rather close to the asymptotic form.
Radyushkin Anatoly V.
Ruskov R. T.
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