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Dmitri Melikhov

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arXiv2014

Charmed Pseudoscalar and Vector Mesons: a Comprehensive QCD Sum-Rule View of Their Decay Constants

In spite of undeniable similarities of the applied techniques, somewhat different challenges are encountered when extracting, from QCD sum rules derived from two-point correlators of appropriate interpolating heavy-light quark currents, the decay constants of charmed mesons of pseudoscalar nature, on the one hand, or of vector nature, on the other hand. This observation justifies a rather careful reassessment of the corresponding results.

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arXiv2014

Decay constants of the charmed vector mesons $D^*$ and $D^*_s$ from QCD sum rules

We present a sum-rule calculation of the decay constants of the charmed vector mesons $D^*$ and $D^*_s$ from the two-point correlator of vector currents. First, we show that the perturbative expansion in terms of the pole mass exhibits no sign of convergence whereas the reorganization of this expansion in terms of the $\overline{\rm MS}$ mass leads to a distinct hierarchy. Second, making use of the operator product expansion in terms of the $\overline{\rm MS}$ mass, we determine the decay constants of the $D^*$ and $D^*_s$ mesons with an emphasis on the uncertainties in these theoretically predicted quantities related both to the input QCD parameters and to the limited accuracy of the method of sum rules. Our results are $f_{D^*}=(252.2 \pm 22.3_{\rm OPE}\pm 4_{\rm syst})\; {\rm MeV}$ and $f_{D_s^*}=(305.5 \pm 26.8_{\rm OPE}\pm 5_{\rm syst})\; {\rm MeV}$. For the ratios of the vector-to-pseudoscalar decay constants we report $f_{D^*}/f_D= 1.221\pm 0.080_{\rm OPE}\pm 0.008_{\rm syst}$ and $f_{D^*_s}/f_{D_s}= 1.241\pm 0.057_{\rm OPE}\pm 0.007_{\rm syst}$.

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arXiv2013

Accurate Bottom-Quark Mass from Borel QCD Sum Rules for the Decay Constants of $B$ and $B_s$ Mesons

We show that in the context of QCD sum rules a strong (anti-) correlation between the $b$-quark mass $m_b$ and the $B$-meson's decay constant $f_B$ emerges: $δf_B/f_B\approx -8 δm_b/m_b.$ This observation allows us to derive a precise value of $m_b$ from a Borel sum rule for the two-point correlator of heavy-light currents exploiting accurate $f_B$ results from lattice QCD as input: $\bar{m}_b(\bar{m}_b)=(4.247\pm0.034)$ GeV.

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arXiv2013

Resolving the Puzzle of the Pion-Photon Transition Form Factor

We investigate the form factors for pseudoscalar-meson-photon transitions by means of dispersive QCD sum rules and demonstrate that most of the measurements done so far (in particular, those by BaBar for $η,$ $η',$ and $η_c$ and those by Belle for $π^0$) are, on the one hand, compatible with each other and with the saturation required by factorization theorems obtained from perturbative QCD and, on the other hand, give a hint that saturation is effective already at relatively low momentum transfers $Q^2;$ this hypothesis is supported by experimental data for the charged-pion elastic form factor available in the range $Q^2\approx2-4\;\{GeV}^2.$ The only exception are the BaBar results for the $π^0γ$ transition form factor, which do not fit into such picture. We point out that results expected from SHMS at JLab on the pion elastic form factor in the region $Q^2\approx5-8\;\{GeV}^2$ will provide the ultimate test of saturation and factorization and strongly impact our general view of the form factors up to infinitely large $Q^2.$

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arXiv2013

Mass of the $b$ Quark from QCD Sum Rules for $f_{B_{(s)}}$

We demonstrate that Borel QCD sum rules for heavy-light currents entail a very strong correlation between the $b$-quark mass $m_b$ and the $B$-meson decay constant $f_B,$ that is, $δf_B/f_B\approx-8δm_b/m_b.$ By starting from $f_B$ as input, this observation allows for an accurate sum-rule determination of $m_b.$ Employing precise lattice QCD results for $f_B$ in our sum-rule study based on the three-loop $O(α_s^2)$ heavy-light correlation function implies $\bar{m}_b(\bar{m}_b)=(4.247\pm0.034)$ GeV for the $b$-quark $\bar{\rm MS}$ mass.

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arXiv2013

Decay Constants of Heavy Pseudoscalar Mesons: Reconciling QCD Sum Rules and Lattice QCD

Exploiting recently proposed novel improvements of the techniques used for extracting from QCD sum rules pivotal hadron characteristics, including their systematic errors, we succeed to achieve a conspicuous agreement of the predictions of QCD sum rules for the decay constants $f_B$ and $f_{B_s}$ of the heavy pseudoscalar mesons $B$ and $B_s,$ which before tended to be slightly too large, with corresponding results from lattice QCD. Adopting for the crucial $b$-quark $\bar{\rm MS}$ mass the value $\bar{m}_b(\bar{m}_b)=(4.247\pm0.034)$ GeV, we get $f_B=(192.0\pm14.6)$ MeV and $f_{B_s}=(228.0\pm19.8)$ MeV; clearly, this may be also viewed as a determination of the $b$-quark mass from sufficiently precise decay constants.

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arXiv2013

Accurate bottom-quark mass from Borel QCD sum rules for $f_B$ and $f_{B_s}$

We prove that Borel QCD sum rules for heavy-light currents yield very strong correlations between the $b$-quark mass $m_b$ and the $B$-meson decay constant $f_B$, namely, $δf_B/f_B\approx -8\,δm_b/m_b$. This fact opens the possibility of an accurate sum-rule extraction of $m_b$ by using $f_B$ as input. Combining precise lattice QCD determinations of $f_B$ with our sum-rule analysis based on the three-loop $O(α_s^2)$ heavy-light correlation function leads to $\bar{m}_b(\bar{m}_b)=(4.247\pm0.034)\;\mbox{GeV}$.

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arXiv2012

A puzzle of the pion-photon transition form factor - resolved?

By means of QCD sum rules in local-duality limit, we analyze the behaviour of the form factors for the transitions of a real and a virtual photon to some pseudoscalar meson as functions of the involved momentum transfer. Except for the findings of BaBar for the neutral-pion form factor, the experimental data for all these transition form factors are compatible with saturation for large momentum transfer predicted by pQCD factorization. For light pseudoscalar mesons, saturation is observed already at relatively small momentum transfer, whereas for the eta-c meson it sets in only at larger momentum transfer. A recent measurement of the neutral-pion transition form factor by Belle seems to resolve this disturbing puzzle as its outcome is compatible with both saturation for relatively small momentum transfer and the behaviour of the eta and eta' transition form factors at large momentum transfer.

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arXiv2012

Pseudoscalar-Meson Form Factors: A Fresh Look by QCD Sum Rules

Confronted with some surprising claims about experimentally measured or theoretically expected dependencies on the involved momentum transfer of various form factors of pseudoscalar mesons, we reassess the present status of these quantities by means of QCD sum rules. This approach provides well-developed and very efficient tools to relate in an analytical manner the parameters of QCD to the empirical properties of hadrons. Within this framework, we show that a few theoretical findings for the pion elastic form factor and one experimental result for the pion-to-photon transition form factor are at odds with rather general fundamental considerations.

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arXiv2012

Universal behaviour of the $γ^*γ\to (π^0,η,η')$ transition form factors

The photon transition form factors of $π$, $η$ and $η'$ are discussed in view of recent measurements. It is shown that the exact axial anomaly sum rule allows a precise comparison of all three form factors at high-$Q^2$ independent of the different structures and distribution amplitudes of the participating pseudoscalar mesons. We conclude: (i) The $πγ$ form factor reported by Belle is in excellent agreement with the non-strange I=0 component of the $η$ and $η'$ form factors obtained from the BaBar measurements. (ii) Within errors, the $πγ$ form factor from Belle is compatible with the asymptotic pQCD behavior, similar to the $η$ and $η'$ form factors from BaBar. Still, the best fits to the data sets of $πγ$, $ηγ$, and $η'γ$ form factors favor a universal small logarithmic rise $Q^2 F_{Pγ}(Q^2)\sim \log(Q^2)$.

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arXiv2012

Meson-Photon Transition Form Factors

We present the results of our recent analysis of the meson-photon transition form factors $F_{Pγ}(Q^2)$ for the pseudoscalar mesons $P = π^0,η,η',η_c$, using the local-duality version of QCD sum rules.

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arXiv2012

The $γ^* γ^*\toη_c$ transition form factor

We study the $γ^* γ^*\toη_c$ transition form factor, $F_{η_cγγ}(Q_1^2,Q_2^2),$ with the local-duality (LD) version of QCD sum rules. We analyse the extraction of this quantity from two different correlators, $ $ and $ ,$ with $P,$ $A,$ and $V$ being the pseudoscalar, axial-vector, and vector currents, respectively. The QCD factorization theorem for $F_{η_cγγ}(Q_1^2,Q_2^2)$ allows us to fix the effective continuum thresholds for the $ $ and $ $ correlators at large values of $Q^2=Q_2^2$ and some fixed value of $β\equiv Q_1^2/Q_2^2$. We give arguments that, in the region $Q^2\ge10$--$15 GeV^2$, the effective threshold should be close to its asymptotic value such that the LD sum rule provides reliable predictions for $F_{η_cγγ}(Q_1^2,Q_2^2).$ We show that, for the experimentally relevant kinematics of one real and one virtual photon, the result of the LD sum rule for $F_{η_cγ}(Q^2)\equiv F_{η_cγγ}(0,Q^2)$ may be well approximated by the simple monopole formula $F_{η_cγ}(Q^2)={2e_c^2N_cf_P}(M_V^2+Q^2)^{-1},$ where $f_P$ is the $η_c$ decay constant, $e^2_c$ is the $c$-quark charge, and the parameter $M_V$ lies in the mass range of the lowest $\bar cc$ vector states.

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arXiv2012

On the $γ^*γ\toπ(η,η')$ transition form factors

The surprising results by the BarBar collaboration on the $πγ$ transition form factor require new thoughts about the high-$Q^2$ dependence of the form factors with virtual photons. We make use of the anomaly sum rule [J. Horejsi and O. Teryaev, Z. Phys. C65, 691 (1995).] which relates the hadron spectral density to the axial anomaly [S. Adler, Phys. Rev. 177, 2426 (1969); J. S. Bell and R. Jackiw, Nuovo Cimento A 60, 47 (1969).]. We study the quark-hadron duality relation for this sum rule and find out that the increase of the rescaled form factor $Q^2F_{πγ}(Q^2)\sim\log(Q^2)$ suggested by the BaBar data requires the presence of a $1/s$-correction term in the relation between the one-loop spectral density and the hadron-continuum spectral density.

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arXiv2012

Elastic and transition form factors of light pseudoscalar mesons from QCD sum rules

We revisit $F_π(Q^2)$ and $F_{Pγ}(Q^2)$, $P=π,η,η'$, making use of the local-duality (LD) version of QCD sum rules. We give arguments, that the LD sum rule provides reliable predictions for these form factors at $Q^2 \ge 5-6$ GeV$^2$, the accuracy of the method increasing with $Q^2$ in this region. For the pion elastic form factor, the well-measured data at small $Q^2$ give a hint that the LD limit may be reached already at relatively low values of momentum transfers, $Q^2\approx 4-8$ GeV$^2$; we therefore conclude that large deviations from LD in the region $Q^2=20-50$ GeV$^2$ seem very unlikely. The data on the ($η,η')\toγγ^*$ form factors meet the expectations from the LD model. However, the {\sc BaBar} results for the $π^0\toγγ^*$ form factor imply a violation of LD growing with $Q^2$ even at $Q^2\approx 40$ GeV$^2$, at odds with the $η,η'$ case and with the general properties expected for the LD sum rule.

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arXiv2012

Recent results in QCD sum rule calculations of heavy meson properties

This talk reviews the recent progress in the extraction of bound-state characteristics from the operator-product expansion (OPE) for field-theory correlators, which constitutes the basis of the method of QCD sum rules. This progress is mainly related to a deeper understanding of one of the key ingredients of the method of sum rules -- the effective continuum threshold. The latter determines to a great extent the numerical values of the bound-state parameters obtained by sum rules. The understanding of properties of the effective continuum threshold allows one to formulate a new algorithm for fixng this quantity for various correlators and in this way gain control over the systematic uncertainties of the bound-state parameters extracted from sum rules. We start with examples from quantum mechanics, where bound-state properties may be calculated independently in two ways: exactly, by solving the Schrödinger equation, and approximately, by the method of dispersive sum rules. Knowing the exact solution is crucial as it allows us to control each step of the sum-rule extraction procedure. On the basis of this analysis, we formulate several improvements of the standard procedures adopted in the method of sum rules in QCD. We then show the impact of these modifications on the extraction of the decay constants of heavy mesons.

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arXiv2012

Charmed-Meson Decay Constants from Improved QCD Sum Rules

The decay constants of the charmed heavy pseudoscalar D and D_s mesons are revisited within a recently developed novel approach to dispersive QCD sum rules which relies on an unprejudiced implementation of quark-hadron duality. The proposed modification of the conventional sum-rule techniques is assessed by applying our prescriptions to quantum mechanics, where exact solutions may be easily obtained by simply solving the Schrödinger equation. The very striking similarity of the extraction procedures of bound-state parameters in potential models and in QCD gives us great confidence in the reliability of our improvements of the sum-rule formalism and their applicability to hadron phenomenology. The implications of one's chosen definition of the heavy-quark masses are scrutinized and the MS-bar quark-mass scheme is identified as the optimal choice for our purposes. Our ideas turn out to reconcile QCD sum-rule predictions for the charmed-meson decay constants (which before tended to be markedly too low) with the findings of both lattice QCD and experiment.

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arXiv2012

Local-Duality QCD Sum Rules for Pion Elastic and (pi^0, eta, eta') to gamma gamma* Transition Form Factors Revisited

The local-duality formulation of QCD sum rules allows for the prediction of hadronic form factors without knowledge of the subtle details of their structure. With the aid of this formalism, we take a fresh look at the behaviours of the charged-pion elastic form factor and of the form factors entering in the transitions of the ground-state neutral unflavoured pseudoscalar mesons pi^0, eta, eta' to one real and one virtual photon within a broad range of momentum transfers Q^2. The uncertainties induced by the approximations inherent to this local-duality approach are estimated by studying, in parallel to QCD, quantum-mechanical potential models, where the exact form factors, obtained by solving the Schrödinger equation, may be compared with the corresponding local-duality sum-rule results. For Q^2 larger than 5-6 GeV^2, we judge the predictions of the simplest local-duality model to be reliable and expect their accuracy to improve very fast with increasing Q^2. The large-Q^2 prediction for the pion elastic form factor should be approached already at moderate momentum transfer squared of approximately 4-8 GeV^2; large deviations from its local-duality behaviour for Q^2 = 20-50 GeV^2, predicted by some hadron-structure models, seem rather unlikely. The (eta, eta') to gamma + gamma* form factors deduced from the simplest local-duality approach exhibit excellent agreement with experiment. In startling contrast, BaBar measurements of the pi^0 to gamma + gamma* form factor imply local-duality violations which even rise with Q^2.

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