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Joao Pacheco B. C. de Melo Dr.
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2008
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The electromagnetic form factors of light and heavy pseudoscalar mesons are calculated within two covariant constituent-quark models, a light-front and a dispersion relation approach. We investigate the details and physical origins of the model dependence of various hadronic observables: the weak decay constant, the charge radius and the elastic electromagnetic form factor.
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Weak $B^-rightarrow D^0, pi^0$ and $D^-rightarrow {K}^0, pi^0$ transition form factors are described in both the space- and time-like momentum transfer regions, within a constituent-quark model. Neutrino-meson scattering and semileptonic weak decays are formulated within the point form of relativistic quantum mechanics to end up with relativistic invariant process amplitudes from which meson transition currents and form factors are extracted in an unambiguous way. For space-like momentum transfers, form factors depend on the frame in which the $W M M^prime$ vertex is considered. Such a frame dependence is expected from a pure valence-quark picture, since a complete, frame independent description of form factors is supposed to include non-valence contributions. The most important of such contributions are the $Z$-graphs, which are, however, suppressed in the infinite-momentum frame ($q^2<0$). On the other hand, they can play a significant role in the Breit frame ($q^2<0$) and in the direct decay calculation ($q^2>0$), as a comparison with the infinite-momentum-frame form factors (analytically continued to $q^2>0$) reveals. Numerical results for the analytically continued infinite-momentum-frame form factors agree very well with lattice data in the time-like momentum transfer region and the experimental value for the slope of the $F^+_{Brightarrow D}$ transition form factor at zero recoil is reproduced satisfactorily. These predictions satisfy heavy-quark-symmetry constraints and their $q^2$ dependence is well approximated by a pole fit, reminiscent of a vector-meson-dominance-like decay mechanism. We discuss how such a decay mechanism can be accommodated within an extension of our constituent-quark model, by allowing for a non-valence component in the meson wave functions. We also address the question of wrong cluster properties inherent in the Bakamjian-Thomas formulation.
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A symmetry-preserving approach to the two valence-body continuum bound-state problem is used to calculate the elastic electromagnetic form factors of the $rho$-meson and subsequently to study the evolution of vector-meson form factors with current-quark mass. To facilitate a range of additional comparisons, $K^ast$ form factors are also computed. The analysis reveals that: vector mesons are larger than pseudoscalar mesons; composite vector mesons are non-spherical, with magnetic and quadrupole moments that deviate $sim 30$% from point-particle values; in many ways, vector-meson properties are as much influenced by emergent mass as those of pseudoscalars; and vector meson electric form factors possess a zero at spacelike momentum transfer. Qualitative similarities between the electric form factors of the $rho$ and the proton, $G_E^p$, are used to argue that the character of emergent mass in the Standard Model can force a zero in $G_E^p$. Morover, the existence of a zero in vector meson electric form factors entails that a single-pole vector meson dominance model can only be of limited use in estimating properties of off-shell vector mesons, providing poor guidance for systems in which the Higgs-mechanism of mass generation is dominant.
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