We calculate the $Btopi,rho$ transition form factors in the framework of perturbative QCD to leading power of $1/M_B$, $M_B$ being the $B$ meson mass. We explain the basic principle by discussing the pion electromagnetic form factor. It is shown that the logarithmic and linear singularities occurring at small momentum fractions of light meson distribution amplitudes do not exist in a self-consistent perturbative analysis, which includes $k_perp$ and threshold resummations.
The axial form factor as well as the axial charge of octet baryons are studied in the perturbative chiral quark model (PCQM) with the quark wave functions predetermined by fitting the theoretical results of the proton charge form factor to experimental data. The theoretical results are found, based on the predetermined quark wave functions, in good agreement with experimental data and lattice values. This may indicate that the electric charge and axial charge distributions of the constituent quarks are the same. The study reveals that the meson cloud plays an important role in the axial charge of octet baryons, contributing 30%-40% to the total values, and strange sea quarks have a considerable contribution to the axial charge of the $Sigma$ and $Xi$.
We present a calculation of the electromagnetic form factors of the $rho^+$ meson. Our formalism is based on the point-form of relativistic quantum mechanics. Electron-$rho$-meson scattering is formulated as a coupled-channel problem for a Bakamjian-Thomas mass operator, such that the dynamics of the exchanged photon is taken explicitly into account. The $rho$-meson current is extracted from on-shell matrix elements of the optical potential of the scattering process. As a consequence of the violation of cluster separability in the Bakamjian-Thomas framework, our current includes additional, unphysical contributions, which can be separated from the physical ones uniquely. Our results for the form factors are in good agreement with other approaches.
We study the $B to rho$ helicity form factors (HFFs) by applying the light-cone sum rules up to twist-4 accuracy. The HFF has some advantages in comparison to the conventionally calculated transition form factors, such as the HFF parameterization can be achieved via diagonalizable unitarity relations and etc. At the large recoil point, only the $rho$-meson longitudinal component contributes to the HFFs, and we have $mathcal{H}_{rho,0}(0)=0.435^{+0.055}_{-0.045}$ and $mathcal{H}_{rho,{1,2}}(0)equiv 0$. We extrapolate the HFFs to physically allowable $q^2$-region and apply them to the $B to rho$ semileptonic decay. We observe that the $rho$-meson longitudinal component dominates its differential decay width in low $q^2$-region, and its transverse component dominates the high $q^2$-region. Two ratios $R_{rm low}$ and $R_{rm high}$ are used to characterize those properties, and our LCSR calculation gives, $R_{rm low}=0.967^{+0.305}_{-0.284}$ and $R_{rm high}=0.219^{+0.058}_{-0.070}$, which agree with the BaBar measurements within errors.
A method to determine masses, widths and coupling constants of vector mesons, like phi(1020), omega(782) and rho0(770) recurrences is defined. Starting from data on decay rates and cross sections for the processes: phi -> M_I gamma, phi -> M_I e+e- and e+e- -> M_I phi, where M_I is a pseudoscalar or scalar meson with isospin I=0,1, the time-like transition form factors, which describe the vertex phi-gamma-M_I, are parametrized using a vector meson-propagators description in the low energy region <3-4 GeV, the quark-counting rule prescription for the high energy behavior, and the analyticity imposed by means of the dispersion relations.
We examine the contribution of the pion cloud to the electromagnetic $N rightarrow Delta$ transition form factors within a relativistic hybrid constituent-quark model. In this model baryons consist not only of the $3q$ valence component, but contain, in addition, a $3 q pi$ non-valence component. We start with constituent quarks which are subject to a scalar, isoscalar confining force. This leads to an $SU(6)$ spin-flavor symmetric spectrum with degenerate nucleon and Delta masses. Mass splitting is caused by pions which are assumed to couple directly to the quarks. The point-form of relativistic quantum mechanics is employed to achieve a relativistically invariant description of this system. The $N rightarrow Delta$ transition current is then determined from the one-photon exchange contribution to the $Delta$ electroproduction amplitude. We will give predictions for the ratios $R_{EM}$ and $R_{SM}$ of electric to magnetic and Coulomb to magnetic form factors, which are supposed to be most sensitive to pion-cloud effects.