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The $B\to a_1 \ell^+ \ell^-$ decays occur by the electroweak penguin and box diagrams which can be performed through the flavor changing neutral current (FCNC). We calculate the form factors of the FCNC $B \to a_1$ transitions in the…
QCD penguins are responsible for about 2/3 of the Delta I=1/2 rule in K to pi pi decays, as inferred from a combined analysis of K to pi pi and KL to gamma gamma. Further tests based on the decays KS to pi0 gamma gamma and K+ to pi+ gamma…
In this paper, we take into account the intrinsic charm and gluonic contents into the $\eta-\eta^\prime$ mixing scheme and formulate the tetramixing $\eta-\eta^\prime-G-\eta_c$ to study the mixing properties of $\eta^{(\prime)}$ mesons.…
The effect of weak annihilation and u-quark penguin contribution on the branching ratio B -> K_1 gamma at next-to-leading order of alpha_s are calculated using LEET approach. It is shown that the value of LEET form factor remains the same…
We use distribution amplitudes of the light $\Sigma$ baryon and the most general form of the interpolating current for heavy $\Sigma_b$ baryon to investigate the semileptonic $\Sigma_b\rightarrow \Sigma l^+l^-$ transition in light cone QCD…
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…
The light cone QCD sum rules method is used to calculate the transition form factor for the radiative (phi -> f_0 gamma) decay, assuming that the quark content of the (f_0) meson is pure (bar{s}s) state. The branching ratio is estimated to…
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…
We present an improved calculation of $B\to$ light vector form factors from light-cone sum rules, including one-loop radiative corrections to twist-2 and twist-3 contributions, and leading order twist-4 corrections. The total theoretical…
We present an improved light-cone sum rule analysis of the decay form factors of $D$ and $D_s$ into $\eta$ and $\eta^{\prime}$ and argue that these decays offer a very promissing possibility to determine the leading Fock-state gluonic…
Taking into account the $\Lambda$ baryon distribution amplitudes and the most general form of the interpolating current of the $\Lambda_{b}$, the semileptonic $\Lambda_{b}\rar \Lambda \ell^+\ell^- $ transition is investigated in the…
A short review is given of calculations of the pion electromagnetic and transition form factors within the framework of quantum chromodynamics. It is argued that both the perturbative and nonperturbative aspects of the Q^2 dependence of…
The electromagnetic form factors of octet baryons are estimated within light cone QCD sum rules method, using the most general form of the interpolating current for baryons. A comparison of our predictions on the magnetic dipole and…
The pion and kaon electromagnetic form factors $F_{M}(Q^2)$ are calculated at the leading order of pQCD using the running coupling constant method. In computations dependence of the meson distribution amplitudes on the hard scale $Q^2$ is…
We formulate the most-general time-dependent decay distributions of $B_s\to J/\psi (\to l^+l^-) \phi(\to K^+K^-)$ in which the direct CP violation is explicitly incorporated. We then investigate the $B \to J/\psi V$ decays in the…
Using the most general form of the interpolating current of the heavy spin 1/2, $\Sigma_{b}$ baryon and distribution amplitudes of the nucleon, the transition form factors of the semileptonic $\Sigma_{b}\to Nl\nu$ decay are calculated in…
We present a systematic discussion of Lambda_b -> Lambda transition form factors in the framework of soft-collinear effective theory (SCET). The universal soft form factor, which enters the symmetry relations in the limit of large recoil…
We study the form factors of the $\eta_c$ meson in the light-front quark model. We explicitly show that the transition form factor of $\eta_c \to \gamma^* \gamma$ as a function of the momentum transfer is consistent with the experimental…
We investigate the radiative $B_{c} \to D_{s1} \gamma$ transition in the framework of QCD sum rules. In particular, we calculate the transition form factors responsible for this decay in both weak annihilation and electromagnetic penguin…
We present the results of our recent analysis of the meson-photon transition form factors $F_{P\gamma}(Q^2)$ for the pseudoscalar mesons $P = \pi^0,\eta,\eta',\eta_c$, using the local-duality version of QCD sum rules.