Related papers: Light-Cone Sum Rules for the Nucleon Form Factors
We analyze the higher-twist effects and the SU(3)-flavour symmetry breaking in the correlation functions used to calculate form factors of pseudoscalar mesons in the QCD light-cone sum rule approach. It is shown that the Ward identities for…
Light-cone sum rules have proved to be very useful in calculating hadronic matrix elements for exclusive processes. I present recent applications of this method to the pion electromagnetic form factor and to the form factors of $\gamma^*…
We derive QCD light-cone sum rules for the hadronic matrix elements of the heavy baryon transitions to nucleon. In the correlation functions the $\Lambda_c,\Sigma_c$ and $\Lambda_b$ -baryons are interpolated by three-quark currents and the…
A systematic analysis shows that the main uncertainties in the form factors are due to the twist-3 wave functions of the light mesons in the light-cone QCD sum rules. We propose an improved approach, in which the twist-3 wave functions…
We develop an approach based on the light-cone sum rules at the leading order of $\alpha_S$ to calculate the gravitational form factors $A(t)$ and $B(t)$ for the valence quark combinations in nucleon. Within the proposed model, the…
This talk presents results of our study of heavy-to-light transition form factors extracted with the help of light-cone sum rules. We employ a model with scalar particles interacting via massless-boson exchange and study the heavy-to-light…
The method of QCD light-cone sum rules is used to calculate soft nonfactorizable contributions to the decay amplitude for B -> J/psi K. The result confirms expectations that in color-suppressed decays nonfactorizable corrections can be…
Light-cone sum rules for the $\Lambda_b \to p, \Lambda$ transition form factors are derived from the correlation functions expanded by the twist of the distribution amplitudes of $\Lambda_b$ baryon. In terms of the $\Lambda_b$ three-quark…
The momentum distributions of the constituent quarks inside the nucleon and the prominent electroproduced nucleon resonances are investigated in the two most sophisticated, available quark potential models, based respectively on the…
The improved light-cone QCD sum rules by using chiral current correlator is systematically reviewed and applied to the calculation of all the heavy-to-light form factors, including all the semileptonic and penguin ones. By choosing suitable…
In this article, we calculate the nonfactorizable soft contributions in the $B \to \eta_c K, \chi_{c0} K$ decays with the light cone QCD sum rules approach. Our results show that the nonfactorizable corrections from the soft gluon exchanges…
This is a short review of the theory and phenomenology of baryon distribution amplitudes, including recent applications to the studies of nucleon form factors at intermediate momentum transfers using the light-cone sum rule approach.
We present a quantitative analysis of the electromagnetic pion form factor in the light-cone sum rule approach, including radiative corrections and higher-twist effects. The comparison to the existing data favors the asymptotic profile of…
In this work, we study the four form-factors $f_1(Q^2)$, $f_2(Q^2)$, $g_1(Q^2)$ and $g_2(Q^2)$ of the $\Sigma \to n$ in the framework of the light-cone QCD sum rules approach up to twist-6 three valence quark light-cone distribution…
We derive new QCD sum rules for $B\to D$ and $B\to D^*$ form factors. The underlying correlation functions are expanded near the light-cone in terms of $B$-meson distribution amplitudes defined in HQET, whereas the $c$-quark mass is kept…
We discuss two types of contributions to hadronic form factors in QCD: hard gluon exchange and soft wave function overlap. Within the QCD sum rule approach, the hard contribution has strong numeric suppression by factor (\alpha_s/\pi) ~ 0.1…
The radiative $\Delta \to \gamma N$ transition is examined at the real photon point $Q^2=0$ using the framework of light-cone QCD sum rules. In particular, we determine the sum rules for the transition form factors $G_M(0)$ and $R_{EM}$ up…
In this paper we calculate the $\bar{B}_s \to f_0(980)$ form factors from light-cone sum rules with $B$ meson DAs. With adopting the quark-antiquark configuration of light scalar mesons,the high twist two-particle and the three-particle…
The light cone method provides a convenient non-perturbative tool to study the heavy-to-light form factors. We construct a light cone quark model utilizing the soft collinear effective theory. In the leading order of effective theory, the…
Quantitative corrections are estimated to three of Franklin's sum rules involving the masses of baryons containing at least one charmed quark and to three analogous sum rules for baryons containing at least one bottom quark. The corrections…