Comment on `Gauge Invariance and k(T)-Factorization of Exclusive Processes'

Aug, 2008
5 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 674 (2009) 182-187
e-Print:
Report number:
  • DESY-09-035

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Abstract: (Elsevier)
We point out mistakes made in the one-loop calculation of some diagrams for the process πγ∗→γ in the preprint arXiv:0807.0296 , and present correct results. Especially, we have difficulty to understand their argument that a highly off-shell gluon generates a light-cone (infrared) singularity. It is shown by means of the Ward identity that the gauge-dependent light-cone singularity found in arXiv:0807.0296 does not exist. It is then shown that a hard kernel derived in the kT factorization of exclusive processes is gauge invariant and free of the light-cone singularity.
Note:
  • 7 pages, 5 figures, a co-author was added, new method was adopted, the conclusion remains the same
  • photon pi: exclusive reaction
  • singularity: light cone
  • pi: wave function
  • invariance: gauge
  • factorization
  • photon pi --> photon