Photon-to-pion transition form factor and pion distribution amplitude from holographic QCD

Abstract

We try to understand the recently observed anomalous behavior of the photon-to-pion transition form factor in the holographic QCD approach. First the holographic description of the anomalous γ^*γ^*π^0 form factor is reviewed and applied to various models. It is illustrated that in describing the anomalous form factor, the holographic approach is asymptotically dual to the perturbative QCD (pQCD) framework, with the pion mode π(z)\sim z corresponding to the asymptotic pion distribution amplitude. This indicates some inconsistency in light-front holography, since π(z)\sim z would be dual to φ(x)\sim \sqrt{x(1-x)} there. After clarifying these subtleties, we employ the relation between the holographic and the perturbative expressions to study possible asymptotic violation of the transition form factor. It is found that if one require that the asymptotic form factor possess a pQCD-like expression, the pion mode can only be ultraviolet-enhanced by logarithmic factors. The minimally deformed pion mode will then be of the form π(z)\sim z\ln (zΛ)^{-1}. We suppose that this deformation may be due to the coupling of the pion with a nontrivial open string tachyon field, and then the parameter $\Lambda$ will be related to the quark condensate. Interestingly, this pion mode leads immediately to Radyushkin's logarithmic model, which fitted very well the experimental data in the large-Q^2 region. On the other side, the pQCD interpretation with a flat-like pion distribution amplitude, proposed by Radyushkin and Polyakov, fails to possess a holographic expression.

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