Photon-to-pion transition form factor and pion distribution amplitude from holographic QCD

Fen Zuo; Tao Huang

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Photon-to-pion transition form factor and pion distribution amplitude from holographic QCD

Fen Zuo, Tao Huang

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Submitted 30 May 2011

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The authors' main claim It is found that if one require that the asymptotic form factor possess a pQCD-like expression, the pion mode can only be ultraviolet-enhanced by logarithmic factors.

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We try to understand the recently observed anomalous behavior of the photon-to-pion transition form factor in the holographic QCD approach. First the holographic description of the anomalous \gamma^*\gamma^*\pi^0 form factor is reviewed and applied to various models. It is illustrated that in describing the anomalous form factor, the holographic approach is asymptotically dual to the perturbative QCD (pQCD) framework, with the pion mode \pi(z)\sim z corresponding to the asymptotic pion distribution amplitude. This indicates some inconsistency in light-front holography, since \pi(z)\sim z would be dual to \varphi(x)\sim \sqrt{x(1-x)} there. After clarifying these subtleties, we employ the relation between the holographic and the perturbative expressions to study possible asymptotic violation of the transition form factor. It is found that if one require that the asymptotic form factor possess a pQCD-like expression, the pion mode can only be ultraviolet-enhanced by logarithmic factors. The minimally deformed pion mode will then be of the form \pi(z)\sim z\ln (z\Lambda)^{-1}. We suppose that this deformation may be due to the coupling of the pion with a nontrivial open string tachyon field, and then the parameter $\Lambda$ will be related to the quark condensate. Interestingly, this pion mode leads immediately to Radyushkin's logarithmic model, which fitted very well the experimental data in the large-Q^2 region. On the other side, the pQCD interpretation with a flat-like pion distribution amplitude, proposed by Radyushkin and Polyakov, fails to possess a holographic expression.

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We try to understand the recently observed anomalous behavior of the photon-to-pion transition form factor in the holographic QCD approach. First the holographic description of the anomalous \gamma^*\gamma^*\pi^0 form factor is reviewed and applied to various models. It is illustrated that in describing the anomalous form factor, the holographic approach is asymptotically dual to the perturbative QCD (pQCD) framework, with the pion mode \pi(z)\sim z corresponding to the asymptotic pion distribution amplitude. This indicates some inconsistency in light-front holography, since \pi(z)\sim z would be dual to \varphi(x)\sim \sqrt{x(1-x)} there. After clarifying these subtleties, we employ the relation between the holographic and the perturbative expressions to study possible asymptotic violation of the transition form factor. It is found that if one require that the asymptotic form factor possess a pQCD-like expression, the pion mode can only be ultraviolet-enhanced by logarithmic factors. The minimally deformed pion mode will then be of the form \pi(z)\sim z\ln (z\Lambda)^{-1}. We suppose that this deformation may be due to the coupling of the pion with a nontrivial open string tachyon field, and then the parameter $\Lambda$ will be related to the quark condensate. Interestingly, this pion mode leads immediately to Radyushkin's logarithmic model, which fitted very well the experimental data in the large-Q^2 region. On the other side, the pQCD interpretation with a flat-like pion distribution amplitude, proposed by Radyushkin and Polyakov, fails to possess a holographic expression.

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There are also interesting works that studied various form factors in holographic QCD [ref] .

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Besides, other methods in studying the LCDAs can be found in Refs. [ref] .

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Actually the result in this background has been obtained in [ref] , but in a different framework [Note that there should be a minus instead of plus sign in the expression for the bulk-to-boundary propagator derived in [ref] .

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Now let us see what is the dual perturbative expression for our holographic result, extending the previous duality relation in asymptotic AdS backgrounds [ref] .

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Following the procedure in [ref] , one can transform it into a pQCD-like expression: [equation] As a direct check of this, one can take one photon on shell and reproduce exactly Eq. ([ref]).

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So here we mainly follow the derivation in [ref] , avoiding to introduce the infrared counter term.

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A natural way to eliminate the singularity is to retain the transverse momentum part in the quark propagator of the hard kernel [ref] , which has been employed intensively in the literature.

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Thus it is quite surprising when BABAR's recent data show that the combination $Q^2 F_γπ^0(Q^2)$ increases continuously with $Q^2$, rather than approaching a constant [ref] .

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The interval of $M_B^2$ was shown to shifting from $0.9-1.6 GeV^2$ at $Q^2∼1 GeV^2$ to $0.5-0.9 GeV^2$ at $Q^2=10 GeV^2$ [ref] .

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For the convenience of later discussions, let us repeat some details of the derivation of the above expression [ref] .

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[ref] , our result is very close to the experimental fit ([ref]) in the region $15 GeV^2≲Q^2<40 GeV^2$.

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This is in much common with the soft contributions in the Light-Cone Sum Rule (LCSR) approach, as shown in [ref] .

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For example, the hard power behavior of hadron scattering amplitudes can be reproduced from the properties of the corresponding string states in this dimension [ref] .

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First let us review the holographic description of the transition form factor, which was first done [ref] in the hard wall model with quark condensate [ref] .

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First let us review the holographic description of the transition form factor, which was first done [ref] in the hard wall model with quark condensate [ref] .

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A great breakthrough was made in 1997 when Maldacena proposed the famous anti-de Sitter (AdS)/CFT correspondence [ref] .

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