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Novel insights into the transition form factor
BaBar's observation of significant deviations of the pion transition form
factor (TFF) from the asymptotic expectation with GeV has brought a
serious crisis to a fundamental picture established for such a simplest
system by perturbative QCD, i.e. the dominance of collinear
factorization at high momentum transfers for the pion TFF. We show that
non-factorizable contributions due to open flavors in
could be an important source that contaminates the pQCD asymptotic limit and
causes such deviations with GeV. Within an effective Lagrangian
approach, the non-factorizable amplitudes can be related to intermediate hadron
loops, i.e. and etc, and their corrections to the
and TFFs can be estimated.Comment: Revtex, 6 pages and 4 eps figures; Extended version accepted by Eur.
Phys. J.
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