Electromagnetic Transition Form Factors of Mesons

Abstract

Using a counting scheme which treats pseudoscalar and vector mesons on equal footing, the decays of the narrow light vector mesons omega and phi into a dilepton and a pseudoscalar pi-meson or eta-meson, respectively, are calculated. Thereby, all required parameters could be determined by other reactions so that one has predictive power for the considered decays. The calculated partial decay widths are in very good agreement with the experimental data.

Comments: Talk given at the 33rd International School of Nuclear Physics (From Quarks and Gluons to Hadrons and Nuclei) in Erice (Italy)