Deep Elastic Processes of Composite Particles in Field Theory and Asymptotic Freedom

A.V. Radyushkin

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Deep Elastic Processes of Composite Particles in Field Theory and Asymptotic Freedom

A.V. Radyushkin

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Submitted 20 Oct 2004 · 31 references

Pith's verdict: The 1977 preprint that first defines the pion distribution amplitude and writes the leading-twist pion form factor as a DA convolution; the central formula holds, and only the low-Q² numerical illustration is soft.

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CitationA.V. Radyushkin. "Deep Elastic Processes of Composite Particles in Field Theory and Asymptotic Freedom." arXiv:hep-ph/0410276 (2004). https://pith.science/paper/AWHUP42V

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Worth your time, with one caveat that is smaller than it looks. This is the 1977 preprint that first writes the pion distribution amplitude down as a defined object — moments equal twist-2 operator matrix elements, Eq. (10) — and then gives the leading large-Q² pion form factor as a convolution of that amplitude with a hard kernel, Eq. (12) and Eq. (13). Whatever the priority disputes, that framing is what the field has used ever since, and it is stated here plainly for the first time in English translation with the original text intact (abstract:s1, abstract:s2). The derivation is honest about its machinery: α-representation power counting picks out the four-quark-line subgraph, the RG equation (5)-(6) handles the spin mixing, and the projection onto the axial structure is stated cleanly. The step from Eq. (7) to Eq. (8) is compressed — you have to reconstruct the small-λ integration yourself — but the author's later cycle [13-17] carries the details and the 2004 notes say so. I don't count that as a gap in this document. The soft spot is the numerical paragraph after Eq. (12). F_π(2 GeV²)=0.18 against the ρ-pole 0.19 is a sanity check, not a result, and it uses the asymptotic shape a(ξ)=(3/2)(1-ξ²) 'for simplicity' at a scale where the DA has not evolved there. The paper flags the α_s/π ≈ 20% next-order term and the omitted twist-3 operators, but never puts an error bar on the shape choice. Related: the claim that DA evolution 'cannot compensate' the α_s log is asserted from preliminary estimates, not shown. Both are peripheral to Eq. (12)/(13), which stands on its own. The notes are unusually straight about priority — Chernyak's earlier equivalent of Eq. (13), the Brodsky-Lepage work, the asymptotic form credited to [13]. That candor is worth something. Who should read it: anyone working on exclusive processes or lattice DA determinations who wants the primary source rather than the textbook retelling. It deserves referees; the central formula is right and the historical record matters.

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The paper has high historical and scientific value. The definition of the DA through moments of local operators (Eq. (10)) is the definition still used in modern higher-order, lattice, and phenomenological work, and the factorization formula (13) is the foundation of the hard exclusive program. The translation makes an important but previously hard-to-access source available, and the added notes give a candid and useful account of priority relative to Lepage–Brodsky and Chernyak–Zhitnitsky–Serbo. The paper also makes a falsifiable prediction: that the absence of the extra logarithmic dependence in Q²F_π(Q²) above m_ρ² would argue against asymptotic freedom. The arithmetic of the numerical example is internally consistent: with α_s = 0.7, f_π = 0.1 GeV, C_2(R)/N_c = 4/9, and the asymptotic shape a(ξ) = (3/2)(1−ξ²) giving |γ|² = 9/4, Eq. (12) reproduces F_π(Q² = 2) ≈ 0.18, and the ρ-pole form gives 0.19.

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[Numerical comparison following Eq. (12)] The numerical illustration F_π(Q² = 2) = 0.18 versus the ρ-pole value 0.19 uses the asymptotic shape a(ξ) = (3/2)(1−ξ²), adopted, in the paper's words, 'for simplicity.' At Q² = 2 GeV² the DA has not evolved to its asymptotic form, and the error induced by this choice is not estimated. The paper does acknowledge the α_s/π ≈ 20% next-order correction and the omitted twist-3 operators, but the DA-shape uncertainty is the one approximation in the numerical claim that is not quantified. This does not threaten the central result, Eqs. (12) and (13), which stand independently of the numerical example; it only weakens the rhetorical statement that the agreement with experiment 'is not bad' at 1 ≤ Q² ≤ 3 GeV². A sentence stating the expected size of the DA-shape correction, or a softening of the agreement claim, would make the illustration proportionate.

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[Eqs. (7)–(8)] The passage from Eq. (7) to Eq. (8) is compressed: the small-λ integration, the use of R₊ = D(V_R), and the expansion of 1/(1 − R₋/D(V_R)) are stated rather than shown. The author's later published cycle [13–17] supplies the details, so this is not a load-bearing gap, but a one-line indication of where the expansion is performed would help the reader.
[Eq. (9) and Eq. (11)] The normalization ã(ξ,µ²) = (√2/2) f_π a(ξ,µ²) follows from the axial-current matrix element (11) and the zero anomalous dimension of that current; the factor √2 deserves an explicit sentence so that the reader can connect Eq. (9) to Eq. (12) without reconstructing it.
[Added abstract] The added abstract states that the paper 'contains the first explicit definition of the pion distribution amplitude.' The notes {3} and {5} appropriately credit Lepage–Brodsky and Chernyak–Zhitnitsky–Serbo, and the priority claim is a matter of historical record rather than of physics; consider softening the abstract phrase or pointing to the notes so that the claim is not read in isolation.
[Fig. 3b] The 2-trees L, L′, R, R′ in Fig. 3b are referred to in the text but not fully explained in the caption; a short caption sentence identifying them would improve readability.
[Typographical] Several typographical errors should be corrected in the translation: 'appied' for 'applied' (opening paragraph), 'neighboorhod' for 'neighbourhood' (before Eq. (8)), and 'desribing' for 'describing' (in the sentence introducing the ρ-pole extrapolation).

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The pion's electromagnetic form factor at large momentum transfer is claimed to factor into a hard, calculable quark-scattering amplitude convolved with a universal pion distribution amplitude, whose overall normalization is fixed by the早已

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This paper asks whether a bound state's internal structure can be separated cleanly from the short-distance physics of a hard collision, using the pion's electromagnetic form factor as the test case. The author argues that at large momentum transfer $Q^2$ the answer is yes: the form factor becomes a convolution of two copies of a single universal object, the pion distribution amplitude, with a hard amplitude computed order by order in perturbative QCD. The distribution amplitude is defined through the moments of twist-2 axial quark operators, so its shape is a property of the pion alone and its overall normalization is fixed by the measured pion decay constant $f_$ rather than fitted. The payoff is a parameter-free prediction, $F_$. The paper also sketches the same logic for the proton and for wide-angle two-body scattering, where it reproduces the quark counting rules plus an extra logarithm from the running coupling.

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This is an English translation of my 1977 Russian preprint. It contains the first explicit definition of the pion distribution amplitude (DA), the expression for the pion form factor asymptotics in terms of the pion DA, and formulates the pQCD parton picture for hard exclusive processes. Abstract of the original paper: The large Q^2 behavior of the pion electromagnetic form factor is explicitly calculated in the non-Abelian gauge theory to demonstrate a field-theoretical approach to the deep elastic processes of composite particles. The approach is equivalent to a new type of parton model.

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This is an English translation of my 1977 Russian preprint. It contains the first explicit definition of the pion distribution amplitude (DA), the expression for the pion form factor asymptotics in terms of the pion DA, and formulates the pQCD parton picture for hard exclusive processes. Abstract of the original paper: The large Q^2 behavior of the pion electromagnetic form factor is explicitly calculated in the non-Abelian gauge theory to demonstrate a field-theoretical approach to the deep elastic processes of composite particles. The approach is equivalent to a new type of parton model.

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**Figure 1.** Electromagnetic form factor of a composite pion.

**Figure 2.** Subgraph producing the leading large-Q2 contribution. The functions f, ¯f do not depend on J because the contraction of V into point eliminates the dependence on Q2 . Summation over all possible subgraphs looks like a perturbative series, with E(Q2/µ2 , g(µ 2 )) describing short-distance interactions while f and ¯f correspond to the properly normalized quark-pion vertices: Fπ(Q 2 ) = 1 Q2 X∞ n=0 X∞ m=0 ¯f I m(µ 2 , g, P′ )E IK mn(Q 2 /µ2 , g)f K n (µ 2 , g, P) , (3) where I, K denote the spinor indices. The leading contribution can be obtained only when f and

**Figure 3.** Structure of the lowest-order diagram. Integration in the neighboorhod of α ∼ 0, β ∼ 0 gives g 2C2(R) 2P µ q 2 X VL,VR g 2 16π 2 NL+NR Z Q dα(L) D2(VL) e iI(α (L) σ ,m2 π) 1 − L−/D(VL) G A(VL) Z Q dα(R) σ D2(VR) e iI(α (R) ,m2 π) 1 − R−/D(VR) G A(VR) . (8) We used the fact that for the diagrams of Fig. 3b type R+ = D(VR), where R± = R′ ± R, and hence R/D(VR) = (1 − R−/D(VR))/2. Expanding into series 1/(1 − R−/D(VR)) = P(R−/D) n we obtain an expression of Eq. (3) type. The factor (R−/D) n just means that the corresponding operator contains n derivatives. Due to symmetry between R…

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A. V. Efremov and A. V. Radyushkin, “High Momentum Trans fer Processes In QCD,” JINR-E2-11535, Apr 1978, 30pp. Submitted to 19th Int. Conf. on High Energy Physics, Tokyo, J apan, Aug 23-30, 1978

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S. J. Brodsky and G. R. Farrar, Phys. Rev. Lett. 31, 1153 (1973). The manuscript was received by the publishing department on 14 June 1977. NOTES ADDED {1} This paper was ﬁnished in June 1977, when I was A.V. Efremov’s graduate student at Moscow University. The original version is reproduced above without changes: just a few typos in formulas were ﬁxed an...

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A. V. Efremov and A. V. Radyushkin, “Field Theoretic Tre atment Of High Momentum Transfer Processes. 1. Deep Inelastic Scattering,” JINR-E2-11725, Jul 1978, 28pp: The or. Math. Phys. 44, 573 (1980)

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