The transition of virtual photons into pseudoscalar mesons

Abstract

The possibility to constrain the meson distribution amplitude from the transitions of virtual photons to pseudoscalar mesons is investigated. It is shown that for a large range in the two photon virtualities the transition form factors are essentially independent of the distribution amplitudes. This in turn entails parameter-free predictions of QCD.

Comments: 4 pages, 1 figure (using LATEX with ws-p8-50x6-00.cls), talk presented at the International Conference on the Structure and Interactions of the Photon (PHOTON2001), Ascona, September 2001