Heavy-to-light form factors: sum rules on the light cone and beyond

Abstract

We report the first systematic analysis of the off-light-cone effects in sum rules for heavy-to-light form factors. These effects are investigated in a model based on scalar constituents, which allows a technically rather simple analysis but has the essential features of the analogous QCD calculation. The correlator relevant for the extraction of the heavy-to-light form factor is calculated in two different ways: first, by adopting the full Bethe-Salpeter amplitude of the light meson and, second, by performing the expansion of this amplitude near the light cone $x^2=0$. We demonstrate that the contributions to the correlator from the light-cone term $x^2=0$ and the off-light-cone terms $x^2\ne 0$ have the same order in the $1/m_Q$ expansion. The light-cone correlator, corresponding to $x^2=0$, is shown to systematically overestimate the full correlator, the difference being $\sim {\Lambda }_{\mathrm{QCD}}/\delta$, with $\delta$ the continuum subtraction parameter of order 1 GeV. Numerically, this difference is found to be 10-20%.

revtex 14 pages, version to be published in Phys. Rev. D (discussion in Sect. 3 extended, example in Sect. 4 added)

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