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The exclusive $\pi\pi$ and $\rho\pi$ production in hard $\gamma^{\ast}\gamma$ scattering in the forward kinematical region where the virtual photon is highly off-shell is studied using the $\gamma\to\pi^-$ Transition Distribution Amplitudes…
Considering, as a limit case, an approximately flat pion distribution amplitude, which is determined from the hardest, in momentum space, solution of the Bethe-Salpeter equation for the pion wave function, we compute the pion transition…
We study the exclusive production of pi-pi and rho-pi in hard gamma* gamma scattering in the forward kinematical region where the virtuality of one photon provides us with a hard scale in the process. The newly introduced concept of…
We study the exclusive production of pi pi and rho pi in hard gamma* gamma scattering in the forward kinematical region where the virtuality of one photon provides us with a hard scale in the process. The newly introduced concept of…
We define the pion-photon Transition Distribution Amplitudes (TDA) in a field theoretic formalism from a covariant Bethe-Salpeter approach for the determination of the bound state. We apply our formalism to the Nambu - Jona Lasinio model,…
We provide an in-depth analysis of the $\pi$ distribution amplitude in terms of two different Gegenbauer representations. Detailed predictions for the $\pi-\gamma$ transition form factor are presented, obtained with light-cone sum rules.…
We consider pion pair production in two-photon collisions, gamma* gamma -> pi+ pi-, at large photon virtuality Q^2 and center-of-mass energy \sqrt{s} in the hard-scattering picture. In the limit where s is large but s << Q^2 we derive an…
The vector and axial pion-photon transition distribution amplitudes are analyzed in the Spectral Quark Model. We proceed by the evaluation of double distributions through the use of a manifestly covariant calculation based on the alpha…
Previous representations of pion pair production amplitudes by two real photons at low energy, which combine dispersion theoretical constraints with elastic unitariy, chiral symmetry and soft photon constraints are generalized to the case…
In this paper, we present a dispersive analysis of the double-virtual photon-photon scattering to two pions up to 1.5 GeV. Through unitarity, this process is very sensitive to hadronic final state interaction. For the $s$-wave, we use a…
We investigate the exclusive two-pion production at the $Z$-pole through the process $e^+e^-\to Z \to \pi\pi \gamma$. In the kinematical region where the invariant mass of the two pions is much smaller than the mass of the $Z$ boson, the…
The photoproduction of pion off nucleon is investigated within a dynamical coupled-channels approach based on the Juelich pi-N model, which has been quite successful in the description of pi-N to pi-N scattering for center-of-mass energies…
The $\gamma\gamma\to\pi\pi$ reactions are discussed. To describe those processes, we include dipion continuum, resonances, high-energy pion-pion rescatterings, $\rho$ meson exchange and pQCD Brodsky-Lepage mechanisms. The cross section for…
The Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model is utilized to investigate the pion and kaon photon leading-twist transition distribution amplitudes using proper time regularization. Separately, the properties of the vector and axial vector pion photon…
The newly introduced Transition Distribution Amplitudes (TDAs) are discussed for the $\pi$-$\gamma$ transitions. Relations between $\pi$-$\gamma$ and $\gamma$-$\pi$ TDAs for different cases are given. Numerical values for the $\pi$-$\gamma$…
We discuss the relevance of a dedicated measurement of exclusive production of a pair of neutral pions in a hard gamma* gamma scattering at small momentum transfer. In this case, the virtuality of one photon provides us with a hard scale in…
We analyse deeply-virtual Compton scattering on a proton target, gamma* P -> P' gamma in the backward region and in the scaling regime. We define the transition distribution amplitudes which describe the proton to photon transition.…
We discuss what can be learned about the shape of the pion distribution amplitude from the form factor for gamma* gamma(*) to pi transitions.
We study the scaling regime of pion electroproduction in the backward region, eN->e'N'pi. We compute the leading-twist amplitude in the kinematical region, where it factorises into a short-distance matrix element and long-distance dominated…
A scenario is investigated in which the leading-twist pion distribution amplitude phi_pi (x) is approximated by the pion decay constant f_pi for all essential values of the light-cone fraction x. A model for the light-front wave function…