Pion off-shell form factors
Abstract
In the paper, the electromagnetic off-shell pion form factors in the Bethe-Salpeter formalism with a separable kernel are considered. Different types of vertex functions of a pion are investigated. The separable kernel of the quark-antiquark interaction is used to obtain an analytical solution of the equation. The pion constants and the form factors on both the on-shell and off-shell surfaces are calculated. The differential cross section of the reaction 1H(e,e' π +) n is also calculated in the paper. All the obtained results are compared with experimental data. The fulfillment of the Ward-Takahashi identity for the off-shell form factors F1(Q2,t) and F2(Q2,t) of a pion is verified.
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