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We apply the single quark transition model to resonance transition amplitudes extracted from photo-and electroproduction data. We use experimental data on the S11(1535) and D13(1520) nucleon resonances to extract the amplitudes for the…
We discuss the status of the pion distribution amplitude (DA) in connection with QCD sum rules and experimental data on the $\gamma^*\gamma^\to \pi^0$ transition form factor. Contents: (a) Pion DA in generalized QCD Sum Rules (SRs); (b)…
In this paper, we investigate the semileptonic decays $B_c \to \eta_c\ell\bar\nu_\ell$ using the quantum chromodynamics(QCD) sum rules within the framework of Standard Model (SM). We further explore the potential to probe signatures of new…
In this paper, we have calculated parity nonconserving electric dipole transition amplitudes of the hyperfine components for the transitions between the ground and first excited states of $^{137}$Ba$^{+}$ and $^{87}$Sr$^{+}$ using…
We report a new measurement of the exclusive electroproduction reaction gamma* p -> pi0 p to explore the evolution from soft non-perturbative physics to hard processes via the Q2 dependence of the magnetic (M1+), electric (E1+) and scalar…
The semileptonic decays of heavy spin--1/2, $\Xi_{b(c)}$ and $\Xi'_{b(c)}$ baryons to the light spin-- 1/2, $\Xi$ and $\Sigma $ baryons are investigated in the framework of the light cone QCD sum rules. In particular, using the most general…
In this work we calculate the transition form factors of $\Lambda_b$ decaying into proton and $N^*(1535)$ ($J^P={1/2}^+$ and ${1/2}^-$ respectively), within the framework of light-cone sum rules with the distribution amplitudes (DAs) of…
After briefly reviewing $\beta \beta$ decay as a test of the neutrino mass, I examine the nuclear structure involved in this process. Simple formulas (\`{a} la Pad\'{e}) are designed for the transition amplitudes and the general behavior of…
We investigate the nucleon to $\Delta$ transition form factors in a soft-wall AdS/QCD model and a light-front quark-diquark model inspired by AdS/QCD. From the transition form factors we evaluate the transition charge densities which…
Within the framework of QCD light-cone sum rules (LCSR), we calculate the form factor for $B{\to}D l\tilde{\nu}$ transitions with chiral current correlator. The resulting form factor depends on the distribution amplitude(DA) of the…
New QCD sum rules for the nucleon axial-vector current coupling constants are derived. One set is derived from a generalized correlator of spin-1/2 interpolating fields, and the other with a mixed correlator of spin-1/2 and spin-3/2 fields.…
We calculate the nucleon parameters in nuclear matter using the QCD sum rules method. The radiative corrections to the leading operator product expansion terms are included, with the corrections of the order \alpha_s beyond the logarithmic…
We introduce a new sum-rule for large-$N_c$ QCD which relates the density of heavy quarkonium states, the state-averaged square of the wavefunction at the origin, and the heavy quark current-current correlator. Focusing on the region of…
The interplay of QCD in $\Delta S=1,2$ non-leptonic weak transitions can be rigorously analyzed, at the inclusive level, by studying the 2--point functions associated with the corresponding $\Delta S=1,2$ effective Hamiltonians. The…
We compare two approaches to the description of pion Compton scattering at moderate momentum transfer, one being based on local duality QCD sum rules for the invariant amplitudes of the process, which have been derived recently, and the…
A visible improvement of the QCD sum-rule framework, achieved only recently by a slightly more sophisticated consideration of the hadron excitations and continuum, is applied to the extraction of the decay constants of heavy-light…
The strong coupling constants of light pseudoscalar $\pi$, $K$ and $\eta$ mesons with decuplet--octet baryons are studied within light cone QCD sum rules, where $SU(3)_f$ symmetry breaking effects are taken into account. It is obtained that…
The form factors of the semileptonic $B\to \pi\pi\ell\bar\nu$ decay are calculated from QCD light-cone sum rules with the distribution amplitudes of dipion states. This method is valid in the kinematical region, where the hadronic dipion…
We present results from a calculation of the electromagnetic transition form factors between ground-state octet and decuplet baryons as well as the octet-only $\Sigma^0$ to $\Lambda$ transition. We work in the combined framework of…
We revisit QCD sum rules for the decay constants of heavy-light mesons. In the sum rules for the vector mesons B^*_(s) and D^*_(s) we improve the accuracy of OPE, taking into account the O(alpha_s^2) terms in the perturbative part and…