Nucleon Resonance Transition Formfactors

Abstract

We discuss recent results from CLAS on electromagnetic resonance transition amplitudes and their dependence on the distance scale ($Q^2$). From the comparison of these results with most advanced theoretical calculations within QCD-based approaches there is clear evidence that meson-baryon contributions are present and important at large distances, i.e. small $Q^2$, and that quark core contributions dominate the short distance behavior.