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It has been pointed out that the recent BaBar data on the pi gamma^* -> gamma transition form factor F_{pi gamma}(Q^2) at low (high) momentum transfer squared Q^2 indicate an asymptotic (flat) pion distribution amplitude. These seemingly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-05 Hsiang-nan Li , Satoshi Mishima

We discuss $(\pi^0,\eta,\eta')\to\gamma^*\gamma$ transition form factors using the light-front quark model. Our discussion includes the analysis of the mixing angles for $\eta-\eta'$. Our results for $Q^2…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-23 Ho-Meoyng Choi , Chueng-Ryong Ji

We present the status of the Mainz group's lattice QCD calculation of the pion transition form factor $\mathcal{F}_{\pi^0\gamma^\ast\gamma^\ast}$, which describes the interaction of an on-shell pion with two off-shell photons. This form…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-03-17 Jonna Koponen , Antoine Gerardin , Harvey B. Meyer , Konstantin Ottnad , Georg von Hippel

The transition pion-photon form factor is studied within the framework of Light-Cone QCD Sum Rules. The spectral density for the next-to-leading order corrections is calculated for any Gegenbauer harmonic. At the level of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-05-13 S. V. Mikhailov , N. G. Stefanis

We review recent advancements in understanding nucleon structure within the Basis Light-Front Quantization (BLFQ) framework--a fully relativistic, nonperturbative approach to solving quantum field theories. In its initial phase, we start…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-10 James P. Vary , Chandan Mondal , Siqi Xu , Xingbo Zhao , Yang Li

We report our investigation on the doubly virtual TFFs $F_{{\rm P}\gamma^*}(Q^2_1,Q^2_2)$ for the ${\rm P}\to\gamma^*(q_1)\gamma^*(q_2) \;({\rm P}=\pi^0,\eta,\eta')$ transitions using the light-front quark model (LFQM). Performing a LF…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-04-24 Ho-Meoyng Choi , Hui-Young Ryu , Chueng-Ryong Ji

The $\gamma^{*}\rho^0\to\pi^0$ transition form factor is extracted from recent result for the $\gamma^* \gamma^* \pi^0$ form factor obtained in the extended hard-wall AdS/QCD model with a Chern-Simons term. In the large momentum region, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Fen Zuo , Yu Jia , Tao Huang

We compute the gravitational form factors (GFFs) of the pion and kaon using their light-front wave functions within the Basis Light-Front Quantization framework. The wave functions are obtained by solving a light-front effective Hamiltonian…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-19 Amrita Sain , Sreeraj Nair , Chandan Mondal , Xingbo Zhao , James P. Vary

We compute the gravitational form factors (GFFs) and study their applications for the description of the mechanical properties such as the pressure, shear force distributions, and the mechanical radius of the proton from its light-front…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-19 Sreeraj Nair , Chandan Mondal , Siqi Xu , Xingbo Zhao , Asmita Mukherjee , James P. Vary

We present calculations of radiative transitions between vector and pseudoscalar quarkonia in the light-front Hamiltonian approach. The valence sector light-front wavefunctions of heavy quarkonia are obtained from the Basis Light-Front…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-28 Meijian Li , Yang Li , Pieter Maris , James P. Vary

We investigate the internal structure of the pion, including the contributions from one dynamical gluon, using the basis light-front quantization (BLFQ) approach. By solving a light-front QCD Hamiltonian with a three-dimensional confining…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-29 Jiangshan Lan , Kaiyu Fu , Satvir Kaur , Zhimin Zhu , Chandan Mondal , Xingbo Zhao , James P. Vary

We determine the leading Fock state light front wave functions (LFWFs) of the pion and kaon via light front projections of the covariant Bethe-Salpeter wave function. Using these LFWFs we study the multi-dimensional images of the valence…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-15 Chao Shi , Kyle Bednar , Ian C. Cloët , Adam Freese

Based on the light-cone (LC) framework and the $k_T$ factorization formalism, the transverse momentum effects and the different helicity components' contributions to the pion form factor $F_{\pi}(Q^2)$ are recalculated. In particular, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-08-25 T. Huang , X. G. Wu , X. H. Wu

The behavior of the transition pion form factor for processes \gamma^*\gamma -> \pi^0 and \gamma^* \gamma^* -> \pi^0 at large values of space-like photon momenta is estimated within the nonlocal covariant quark-pion model. It is shown that,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 I. V. Anikin , A. E. Dorokhov , Lauro Tomio

The meson-photon transition form factors $\gamma\gamma^*\to P$ ($P$ stands for $\pi$, $\eta$ and $\eta'$) provide strong constraints on the distribution amplitudes of the pseudoscalar mesons. In this paper, these transition form factors are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-10-11 Xing-Gang Wu , Tao Huang

The transition gamma*(q_1)gamma*(q_2) -> \pi0(p) is studied within the QCD sum rule framework. As a first step, we analyze the kinematic situation when both photon virtualities are spacelike and large. We construct a QCD sum rule for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-02-16 A. V. Radyushkin , R. T. Ruskov

In this work, we perform a detailed study of transition form factors for axial-vector meson production via the two-photon fusion process $\gamma^* \gamma^* \to 1^{++}$, with space-like virtual photons in the initial state and a $P$-wave…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-19 Izabela Babiarz , Roman Pasechnik , Wolfgang Schäfer , Antoni Szczurek

We present a lattice QCD calculation of the double-virtual neutral pion transition form factor, with the goal to cover the kinematic range relevant to hadronic light-by-light scattering in the muon $g-2$. Several improvements have been made…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2019-09-26 Antoine Gérardin , Harvey B. Meyer , Andreas Nyffeler

In this paper we present the result of a direct QCD sum rule calculation of the transition form factor \gamma\gamma* -> pi^o in the region of moderately large invariant momentum Q^2 > 1GeV^2 of the virtual photon. In contrast to pQCD, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. V. Radyushkin , R. Ruskov

We calculate the transition form factor between vector and pseudoscalar quarkonia in both the timelike and the spacelike region using light-front dynamics. We investigate the frame dependence of the form factors for heavy quarkonia with…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-08-19 Meijian Li , Yang Li , Pieter Maris , James P. Vary