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We accomplish the complete two-loop computation of the leading-twist contribution to the photon-pion transition form factor $\gamma \, \gamma^{\ast} \to \pi^0$ by applying the hard-collinear factorization theorem together with modern…
Pion transition form factor for the process $\gamma*\gamma*\to \pi^0$ at space-like values of photon momenta is calculated within the effective quark-meson model with the interaction induced by instanton exchange. The leading and…
By employing the perturbative QCD (PQCD) factorization approach, we study the quasi-two-body $B^0_{(s)}\to \eta_c{(2S)}\pi^+\pi^-$ decays, where the pion pair comes from the $S$-wave resonance $f_0(X)$. The Breit$-$Wigner formula for the…
Pion-pion elastic scattering in the isospin I=2 channel is investigated in two-flavor dynamical lattice QCD. Six ensembles are used with lattices elongated in one of the spatial dimensions at two quark masses corresponding to a pion mass of…
We present a lattice QCD calculation of the scattering phase shift for the I=2 $S$-wave two-pion system using the finite size method proposed by L\"uscher. We work in the quenched approximation employing the standard plaquette action at…
Multiplicity data up to 200 GeV in e+e- annihilation are described well by the two-stage model based on pQCD and suggested the phenomenological scheme of hadronization. This model confirms the fragmentation mechanism of hadronization (in…
We provide a complete description of the angular distribution of gluons in a medium-induced QCD cascade. We identify two components in the distribution, a soft component dominated by soft multiple scatterings, and a hard component dominated…
Peripheral nucleon-nucleon scattering is analysed in the framework of an effective field theory. Distorted-wave methods are used to remove the effects of one-pion exchange. Two-pion exchange and recoil corrections to one-pion exchange are…
To study cross sections and polarization asymmetries for the processes $e p \to e n \pi^+$ and $e p \to e p \pi^0$ in the backward region, we develop a flexible phenomenological model for nucleon-to-pion transition distribution amplitudes…
We investigate the two-pion interferometry in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions in the granular source model of quark-gluon plasma droplets. The pion transverse momentum spectra and HBT radii of the granular sources agree well with the…
Splitting amplitudes are universal functions governing the collinear behavior of scattering amplitudes for massless particles. We compute the two-loop g -> gg splitting amplitudes in QCD, N=1, and N=4 super-Yang-Mills theories, which…
We present a symmetry-preserving scheme to derive the pion and kaon generalized parton distributions (GPDs) in Euclidean space. The key to maintaining crucial symmetries under this approach is the treatment of the scattering amplitude, such…
We calculate the effects on the elastic electron-proton scattering cross section of the two-photon exchange contribution with an intermediate $\Delta$ resonance. The $\Delta$ two-photon exchange contribution is found to be smaller in…
We examine the role of O(\alpha_s) perturbative corrections to the pion elastic form factor F_\pi(Q^2). We express the quark current three-point function in terms of light cone variables and use Borel transformation to simultaneously model…
The pion structure function is investigated in a simple model, where pion and constituent quark fields are coupled through the simplest pseudoscalar coupling. The imaginary part of the forward gamma* pi-> gamma* pi scattering amplitude is…
We propose a new formula for extracting the polarized gluon distribution $\Delta g$ in the proton from the large--$p_T$ light hadron pair production in deep inelastic semi-inclusive reactions. Though the process dominantly occurs via…
Within the one-loop approximation of baryon chiral perturbation theory we calculate all one-pion and two-pion exchange contributions to the nucleon-nucleon interaction. In fact we construct the elastic NN-scattering amplitude up to and…
A detailed study of two-photon exchange in unpolarized and polarized elastic electron--nucleon scattering is presented, taking particular account of nucleon finite size effects. Contributions from nucleon elastic intermediate states are…
We study the energy dependence of the contribution of pion exchange to large-rapidity-gap events in deep inelastic scattering. The results show that this contribution can be quite significant at low energy and that the LRG events observed…
We combine the constraints on the pion quark structure available from perturbative QCD, nonperturbative QCD (nonlocal QCD sum rules and light cone sum rules) with the analysis of current data on F_{\pi\gamma\gamma^*}(Q^2), including recent…