New effective treatment of the light-front nonvalence contribution in timelike exclusive processes

Chueng Ryong Ji, Ho Meoyng Choi

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Abstract

We discuss a necessary nonvalence contribution in timelike exclusive processes. Following a Schwinger-Dyson type of approach, we relate the nonvalence contribution to an ordinary light-front wave function that has been extensively tested in the spacelike exclusive processes. A complicate four-body energy denominator is exactly cancelled in summing the light-front time-ordered amplitudes. Applying our method to Kℓ3 and D0 → K-+νι where a rather substantial nonvalence contribution is expected, we find not only an improvement in comparing with the experimental data but also a covariance (i.e., frame-independence) of existing light-front constituent quark model.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)330-336
Number of pages7
JournalPhysics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume513
Issue number3-4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2 Aug 2001

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