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Light Cone Sum Rules for the pi0-gamma*-gamma Form Factor Revisited

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2011-03-22 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We provide a theoretical update of the calculations of the pi0-gamma*-gamma form factor in the LCSR framework, including up to six polynomials in the conformal expansion of the pion distribution amplitude and taking into account twist-six corrections related to the photon emission at large distances. The results are compared with the calculations of the B-> pi l nu decay and pion electromagnetic form factors in the same framework. Our conclusion is that the recent BaBar measurements of the pi0-gamma*-gamma form factor at large momentum transfers are consistent with QCD, although they do suggest that the pion DA may have more structure than usually assumed.

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@article{arxiv.1012.4671,
  title  = {Light Cone Sum Rules for the pi0-gamma*-gamma Form Factor Revisited},
  author = {S. S. Agaev and V. M. Braun and N. Offen and F. A. Porkert},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1012.4671},
  year   = {2011}
}

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20 pages, 14 figures, 5 tables

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