Photon-pion transition form factor: BABAR puzzle is cracked

Recently, the BABAR collaboration published (arXiv:0905.4778) data for the photon-pion transition form factor $F_{πγγ^{\ast}}(Q^{2})$, which are in strong contradiction to the predictions of the standard factorization approach to perturbative QCD. Immediately afterwards, two mechanisms were suggested (A.E. Dorokhov, arXiv:0905.4577; A.V. Radyushkin, arXiv:0906.0323), that logarithmically enhance the form factor asymptotics and therefore provide a qualitatively satisfactory description of the BABAR data. However, the physics of the BABAR effect was not fully clarified. In the present work, based on a nonperturbative approach to the QCD vacuum and on rather universal assumptions, we show that there exists two asymptotic regimes for the pion transition form factor. One regime with asymptotics $F_{πγ^{\ast}γ}(Q^{2})\sim1/Q^{2}$ corresponds to the result of the standard QCD factorization approach, while other violates the standard factorization and leads to asymptotic behavior as $F_{πγ^{\ast}γ}(Q^{2})\sim\ln(Q^{2})Q^{2}$. Furthermore, considering specific nonlocal chiral quark models, we find the region of parameters, where the existing CELLO, CLEO and BABAR data for the pion transition form factor are successfully described.

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