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Operator Product Expansion and Quark-Hadron Duality: Facts and Riddles

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

We review the status of the practical operator product expansion (OPE), when applied to two-point correlators of QCD currents which interpolate to mesonic resonances, in view of the violations of local quark-hadron duality. Covered topics are: a mini-review of mesonic QCD sum rules in vacuum, at finite temperature, or at finite baryon density, a comparison of model calculations of current-current correlation functions in 2D and 4D with the OPE expression, a discussion of meson distribution amplitudes in the light of nonperturbatively nonlocal modifications of the OPE, and a reorganization of the OPE which (partially) resums powers of covariant derivatives.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0312130,
  title  = {Operator Product Expansion and Quark-Hadron Duality: Facts and Riddles},
  author = {Ralf Hofmann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0312130},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

now 68 pages, 29 figures (1 figure added), habilitation thesis, mild restructuring, typos corrected, about 30 references and corresponding text added, version to be published in Prog. Part. Nucl. Phys