Inside Mesons: Coupling Constants and Form Factors

Abstract

We illustrate the progress of covariant QCD phenomenology for the description of meson coupling constants and form factors. As examples, we discuss the $\rho \pi \pi$ and $\gamma \pi \rho$ interactions, the $\rho$ contribution to the pion charge radius, and the $\rho NN$ and $\omega NN$ vector and tensor coupling constants and form factors.

Talk given at the Workshop on Future Directions in Quark Nuclear Physics, Adelaide, March 1998; 10 pages, LaTeX, incl 6 PS figs; to be published