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2.3 Transition F.F. for VP and

The same arguments as before allow to show the existence of a single form factor for each or transition. Specializing to the case, one has

 

where is normalized to coincide with the VP-coupling constant to real photons governing the well-known radiative decay rates. The transition form factor for the case has the same characteristics with V replaced by and . The normalization is now given by the and couplings to and generalization to the case where both photons are off-mass-shell () is obvious. In both cases, stands for the final spin-1 polarization and the factor appears because only the pseudoscalar meson belongs to the abnormal spin-parity series.



Carlos E.Piedrafita