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Recent measurements of the branching ratios for the decays $\omega\to\pi^0\pi^0\gamma$ and $\rho^0\to\pi^0\pi^0\gamma$ lead to coupling constants of the $V\sigma\gamma$-interaction ($V$ is a vector meson) one order of magnitude smaller than…
The electromagnetic form factor of the pion is calculated in the "point-form" of relativistic quantum mechanics using simple, phenomenological wave functions. It is found that the squared charge radius of the pion is predicted one order of…
The behaviour of the pion transition form factor for the process $\gamma^\star\gamma \to \pi^0$ and $\gamma^\star\gamma^\star\to \pi^0$ at space-like values of photon momenta is estimated within the nonlocal covariant quark-meson model. The…
We analyse the pion electromagnetic, charged-current, and $\pi\gamma$ transition form factors at timelike momentum transfers $q$, $q^2=s\le 1.4$ GeV$^2$, using a dispersion approach. We discuss in detail the propagator matrix of the…
We employ QCD sum rules to calculate the $J/\psi DD^*$ form factors and coupling constant by studying the three-point $J/\psi D^*D$ correlation function. We find that the momentum dependence of the form factor depends on the off-shell…
Domain model of QCD allows for description of wide range of meson observables, dynamical chiral symmetry breaking, and resolution of $U_A(1)$ and strong $CP$ problems. The purpose of the present study is transition form-factor of neutral…
The DDrho form factor is evaluated in a QCD sum rule calculation for both D and rho off-shell mesons. We study the double Borel sum rule for the three point function of two pseudoscalar and one vector meson currents. We find that the…
The paper studies a strong coupling constant between {\pi} meson and octet baryon using the hard-wall AdS/QCD model, which considers SU(3)f symmetry-breaking effects. Briefly mentioned are profile functions for pseudoscalar meson and baryon…
Measurements and theoretical calculations of meson form factors are essential for our understanding of internal hadron structure and QCD, the dynamics that bind the quarks in hadrons. The pion electromagnetic form factor has been measured…
We review the quark-meson coupling model, in which the quark degrees of freedom are explicitly involved to describe the properties of not only nuclear matter but also finite nuclei. Then, we present the electric and magnetic form factors…
Using a three-dimensional formalism that includes relativistic kinematics, the effects of negative-energy states, approximate boosts of the two-body system, and current conservation, we calculate the electromagnetic form factors of the…
A formalism for the relativistic description of hadron decays within the constituent quark model is presented. First, hadron amplitudes of the light--cone constituent quark model, in particular the weak transition form factors at spacelike…
I describe recent advances in our understanding of the hadronic form factors governing semileptonic meson transitions. The resulting framework provides a systematic approach to the experimental data, as a means of extracting precision…
We review the current status of rho-omega mixing and discuss its implication for our understanding of charge-symmetry breaking. In order to place this work in context we also review the photon-hadron coupling within the framework of vector…
The transversity form factors of the pion, involving matrix elements of bilocal tensor currents, are evaluated in chiral quark models, both in the local Nambu--Jona-Lasinio with the Pauli-Villars regularization, as well as in nonlocal…
Electromagnetic form factors of the transition $\pi+\gamma_{virt.}\ra A_1$ are calculated by QCD sum rules technique with the description of the pion in terms of the set of wave functions of increasing twist. Obtained results are compared…
It has been previously shown that a particular nonperturbative constituent-quark model of hadrons describes experimental measurements of electromagnetic form factors of light charged mesons through a small number of common phenomenological…
The coupling of various charmonium mesons to a photon is studied using lattice QCD, giving access to radiative form factors and transitions, and probing the mesons' structure. Methods are developed which allow the robust determination of…
Form factors of nucleons and mesons with timelike momentum transfers are discussed. New experimental results for protons, pions, and kaons at large momentum transfers are presented, and the inadequacy of existing theoretical ideas about…
The meson (pion and kaon) form factor is calculated in the perturbative framework with alternative forms for the running coupling constant and the gluon propagator in the infrared kinematic region. These modified forms are employed to test…