We extract the isovector tensor nucleon form factors, which play an important role in understanding the transverse spin structure of the nucleon when related to the quark helicity-flip generalized parton distributions via their first moments. We empl
oy the light-cone QCD sum rules to leading order in QCD and include distribution amplitudes up to twist 6 in order to calculate the three tensor form factors $H_T$, $E_T$ and $tilde{H}_T$. Our results agree well with those from other approaches in the low and high momentum-transfer regions.
We compute the diagonal isovector axial-vector as well as induced pseudoscalar form factors of nucleon, $Sigma$ and $Xi$ baryons by employing the light-cone QCD sum rules to leading order in QCD and including distribution amplitudes up to twist 6. Ex
trapolating our sum-rules results to low-momentum transfers, we make a comparison with experimental and lattice-QCD results where we can achieve a nice qualitative and quantitative agreement.
