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Finding a way to determine the pion distribution amplitude from the experimental data

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2013-04-01 v2

Abstract

It is believed that one can extract more accurate information of the pion distribution amplitude from the pion-photon transition form factor (TFF) due to the single pion in this process. However the BABAR and Belle data of the pion-photon TFF have a big difference for Q2[15,40]Q^2\in [15,40] GeV2^2, and at present, the pion DA can not be definitely determined from the pion-photon TFF. it is crucial to find the right pion DA behavior and to determine which data is more reliable. In this letter, we perform a combined analysis of the most existing data of the processes involving pion by using a general model for the pion wavefunction/DA. Such a DA model can mimic all the existed pion DA behaviors, whose parameters can be fixed by the constraints from the processes π0γγ\pi^0\to\gamma\gamma, πμν\pi\to\mu\nu, BπlνB\to\pi l \nu, and etc. Especially, we examine the BπB \rightarrow \pi transition form factors that provides another constraint to the parameter BB in our DA model, which results in B[0.00,0.29]B \in[0.00,0.29]. This inversely shows that the predicted curve for the pion-photon TFF is between the BABAR and Belle data in the region Q2Q^2\in [15,40][15,40] GeV2^2. It will be tested by coming more accurate data at large Q2Q^2 region, and the definite behavior of pion DA can be concluded finally.

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@article{arxiv.1303.2301,
  title  = {Finding a way to determine the pion distribution amplitude from the experimental data},
  author = {Tao Huang and Xing-Gang Wu and Tao Zhong},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1303.2301},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

4 pages, 2 figures. To match the published version. To be published in Chin.Phys.Lett. (Express Letter)

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