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QCD sum rules: form factors and wave functions

A. V. Radyushkin

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9707335

Abstract

The shape of hadronic distribution amplitudes (DAs) is a critical issue for the perturbative QCD of hard exclusive processes. Recent CLEO data on gamma gamma* -> pi0 form factor clearly favor a pion DA close to the asymptotic form. We argue that QCD sum rules for the moments of the pion DA φπ(x) are unreliable, so that the humpy shape of φπ(x) obtained by Chernyak and Zhitnitsky is a result of model assumptions rather than an unambigous consequence of QCD sum rules. This conclusion is also supported by a direct QCD sum rule calculation of the gamma gamma* -> pi0 form factor which gives a result very close to the CLEO data.

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