Published July 2007 | Version v1
Journal article

Space-like and time-like pion-rho transition form factors in the light-cone formalism

  • 1. Department of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871 (China)
  • 2. Department of Physics, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027 (United States)

Description

Having calculated the light-cone wavefunction of the pseudoscalar meson by using two equivalent and fully covariant methods, we generalize such methods to the valence Fock states of the vector meson in the light-cone formalism. We investigate the decay constant of the ρ meson fρ, the γ*π → ρ and γ*ρ → π transition form factors and especially the transition magnetic moments. By using two groups of constraint parameters, we predict the space-like and time-like form factors Fπρ(Q2) and Fρπ(Q2) at low and moderate energy scale and the electromagnetic radius of these transition processes. In addition, we extend our calculation to γ*π → ω space-like and time-like form factors by using the same sets of parameters

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1088/0954-3899/34/7/021;
PII
S0954-3899(07)47894-X;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Physics. G, Nuclear and Particle Physics
Journal Volume
34
Journal Issue
7
Journal Page Range
p. 1845-1860
ISSN
0954-3899
CODEN
JPGPED