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In the framework of Dyson-Schwinger equations (DSE), we compute the $\gamma^*\gamma\to\pi^0$ transition form factor, $G(Q^2)$. For the first time, in a continuum approach to quantun chromodynamics (QCD), it was possible to compute $G(Q^2)$…
We accomplish for the first time the two-loop computation of the leading-twist contribution to the pion electromagnetic form factor by employing the effective field theory formalism rigorously. The next-to-next-to-leading-order…
Detailed predictions for the scaled pion-photon transition form factor are given, derived with the method of light-cone sum rules and using pion distribution amplitudes with two and three Gegenbauer coefficients obtained from QCD sum rules…
Corrections due to gluon condensate to electromagnetic form factors of the transition $\pi+\gamma^* \to A_1$ are calculated by standard QCD sum rules technique. The obtained results are compared to the corresponding light-cone QCD sum…
We investigate the vector and axial-vector form factors for the pion radiative weak decays $\pi^+\to e^+\nu_e \gamma$ and $\pi^+\to e^+\nu_e e^+ e^-$, based on the gauged effective chiral action from the instanton vacuum in the large $N_c$…
The vector form factor of the pion is calculated in the framework of chiral effective field theory with vector mesons included as dynamical degrees of freedom. To construct an effective field theory with a consistent power counting, the…
We present a lattice calculation of the vector form factor of the pion for two flavours of non-perturbatively O(a) improved Wilson fermions. For the measurements we utilise the CLS ensembles which include various lattice spacings and pion…
We present results for the isovector axial, induced pseudoscalar, electric, and magnetic form factors of the nucleon. The calculations were done using $2+1+1$-flavor HISQ ensembles generated by the MILC collaboration with lattice spacings…
Holographic QCD provides a unique framework in which to compute QCD observables. In this talk we summarize recent numerical work on computing the pion electromagnetic form factor using an AdS/QCD action that includes both spontaneous and…
The proton form factors are reduced to vacuum correlators of 4 quark fields by assuming independent constituent quarks. The axial singlet quark and gluonic form factors are calculated in the instanton liquid model. A discussion of…
Motivated by the emerging possibilities to study threshold pion electroproduction at large momentum transfers at Jefferson Laboratory following the 12 GeV upgrade, we provide a short theory summary and an estimate of the nucleon axial form…
NNLO QCD corrections for the pion electromagnetic form factor at large momentum transfer have been recently performed in [Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 201901 (2024); Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 221901 (2025)], revealing that the NLO and NNLO…
The charge form factor of the pion is calculated in lattice QCD. The non-perturbatively improved Sheikholeslami-Wohlert action is used together with the $\mathcal{O}(a)$ improved vector current. Other choices for the current are examined.…
The electromagnetic form factors of pion and nucleon are considered within the framework of the Quark-Gluon Strings Model, where the dependence of the form factors on $q^2$ is determined by the intercept of a dominant Regge trajectory and…
We calculate the transition form factor of the neutral pion where one photon is virtual and another photon is real in the model where the light constituent quark mass and the quark-pion vertex are taken to be momentum independent. Radiative…
The charged and neutral kaon form factors are calculated as a phenomenological application of the QCD Dyson-Schwinger equations. The results are compared with the pion form factor calculated in the same framework and yield…
Revisiting, within QCD sum rules, the relevance of local duality for the pion elastic form factor gives rise to optimism.
We use light-cone QCD sum rules to calculate the pion-photon transition form factor, taking into account radiative corrections up to the next-to-next-to-leading order of perturbation theory. We compare the obtained predictions with all…
We study the accuracy of the pion form factor, obtained with a local-duality version of dispersive sum rules. To probe this accuracy, we make use of a potential model, where the exact form factor may be calculated from the solution of the…
We discuss the photon to meson transition form factor for virtual photons, which can be measured in e+ e- collisions. We demonstrate that this form factor is independent of the shape of the meson distribution amplitude over a wide…