Published April 2012 | Version v1
Journal article

Pion-Photon Transition Form Factor and Pion Distribution Amplitude in QCD: Facing the Enigmatic Behavior of the BaBar Data

  • 1. Institut für Theoretische Physik II, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-44780 Bochum (Germany)
  • 2. Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, JINR, 141980 Dubna (Russian Federation)

Description

We present an extended analysis of the data for the pion-photon transition form factor from different experiments, CELLO, CLEO, and BaBar, and discuss various theoretical approaches which try to reason from them. We focus on the divergent behavior of the BaBar data for the pion and those for the η(η′) pseudoscalar mesons and comment on recently proposed explanations for this discrepancy. We argue that it is not possible at present to accommodate these data within the standard QCD framework self-consistently.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2012.02.031

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2012.02.031;
arXiv
arXiv:1111.7137v2;
PII
S0920-5632(12)00048-5;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Physics. B, Proceedings Supplements
Journal Volume
225-227
Journal Page Range
p. 146-150
ISSN
0920-5632
CODEN
NPBSE7

Conference

Title
International workshop on e"+e"- collisions from #phi# to #psi#
Acronym
PHIPSI11
Dates
19-22 Sep 2011
Place
Novosibirsk (Russian Federation)

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Copyright (c) 2012 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.