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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" article-type="research-article" xml:lang="en"><?properties open_access?><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">10052</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>The European Physical Journal C</journal-title><journal-subtitle>Particles and Fields</journal-subtitle><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">Eur. Phys. J. C</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">1434-6044</issn><issn pub-type="epub">1434-6052</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Springer Berlin Heidelberg</publisher-name><publisher-loc>Berlin/Heidelberg</publisher-loc></publisher><custom-meta-group><custom-meta><meta-name>toc-levels</meta-name><meta-value>0</meta-value></custom-meta><custom-meta><meta-name>volume-type</meta-name><meta-value>Regular</meta-value></custom-meta><custom-meta><meta-name>journal-subject-primary</meta-name><meta-value>Physics</meta-value></custom-meta><custom-meta><meta-name>journal-subject-secondary</meta-name><meta-value>Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory</meta-value></custom-meta><custom-meta><meta-name>journal-subject-secondary</meta-name><meta-value>Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons</meta-value></custom-meta><custom-meta><meta-name>journal-subject-secondary</meta-name><meta-value>Quantum Field Theories, String Theory</meta-value></custom-meta><custom-meta><meta-name>journal-subject-secondary</meta-name><meta-value>Measurement Science and Instrumentation</meta-value></custom-meta><custom-meta><meta-name>journal-subject-secondary</meta-name><meta-value>Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology</meta-value></custom-meta><custom-meta><meta-name>journal-subject-secondary</meta-name><meta-value>Nuclear Energy</meta-value></custom-meta><custom-meta><meta-name>journal-product</meta-name><meta-value>NonStandardArchiveJournal</meta-value></custom-meta><custom-meta><meta-name>numbering-style</meta-name><meta-value>ContentOnly</meta-value></custom-meta></custom-meta-group></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">s10052-017-4661-8</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="manuscript">4661</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="arxiv">1610.01020v1</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-4661-8</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Regular Article - Theoretical Physics</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">A study of the <inline-formula id="IEq1"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:msup><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">γ</mml:mi><mml:mo>∗</mml:mo></mml:msup></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq1_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\gamma ^*$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq1.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula>–<inline-formula id="IEq2"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:msub><mml:mi>f</mml:mi><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msub><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">(</mml:mo><mml:mn>980</mml:mn><mml:mo stretchy="false">)</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq2_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$f_{0}(980)$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq2.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> transition form factors</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name><surname>Kroll</surname><given-names>P.</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff1">1</xref><xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff2">2</xref><xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1">a</xref></contrib><aff id="Aff1"><label>1</label>0000 0001 2364 5811grid.7787.f<institution content-type="org-division">Fachbereich Physik</institution><institution content-type="org-name">Universität Wuppertal</institution><addr-line content-type="postcode">42097</addr-line><addr-line content-type="city">Wuppertal</addr-line><country country="DE">Germany</country></aff><aff id="Aff2"><label>2</label>0000 0001 2190 5763grid.7727.5<institution content-type="org-division">Institut für Theoretische Physik</institution><institution content-type="org-name">Universität Regensburg</institution><addr-line content-type="postcode">93040</addr-line><addr-line content-type="city">Regensburg</addr-line><country country="DE">Germany</country></aff></contrib-group><author-notes><corresp id="cor1"><label>a</label><email>kroll@physik.uni-wuppertal.de</email></corresp></author-notes><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>13</day><month>2</month><year>2017</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="collection"><month>2</month><year>2017</year></pub-date><volume>77</volume><issue seq="37">2</issue><elocation-id>95</elocation-id><history><date date-type="received"><day>12</day><month>10</month><year>2016</year></date><date date-type="accepted"><day>30</day><month>1</month><year>2017</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright © 2017, The Author(s)</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2017</copyright-year><copyright-holder>The Author(s)</copyright-holder><license license-type="open-access" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p><bold>Open Access</bold>This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0</ext-link>/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p><license-p>Funded by SCOAP<sup>3</sup></license-p></license></permissions><abstract xml:lang="en" id="Abs1"><title>Abstract</title><p>The <inline-formula id="IEq5"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:msup><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">γ</mml:mi><mml:mo>∗</mml:mo></mml:msup></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq5_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\gamma ^*$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq5.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula>–<inline-formula id="IEq6"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:msub><mml:mi>f</mml:mi><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msub><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">(</mml:mo><mml:mn>980</mml:mn><mml:mo stretchy="false">)</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq6_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$f_{0}(980)$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq6.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> transition form factors are calculated within the QCD factorization framework. The <inline-formula id="IEq7"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:msub><mml:mi>f</mml:mi><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msub></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq7_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$f_0$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq7.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula>-meson is assumed to be mainly generated through its <inline-formula id="IEq8"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:mi>s</mml:mi><mml:mover accent="true"><mml:mrow><mml:mi>s</mml:mi></mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">¯</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:mover></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq8_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$s\bar{s}$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq8.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> Fock component. The corresponding spin wave function of the <inline-formula id="IEq9"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:msub><mml:mi>f</mml:mi><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msub><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">(</mml:mo><mml:mn>980</mml:mn><mml:mo stretchy="false">)</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq9_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$f_{0}(980)$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq9.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> meson is constructed and, combined with a model light-cone wave function for this Fock component, used in the calculation of the form factors. In the real-photon limit the results for the transverse form factor are compared to the large momentum-transfer data measured by the BELLE collaboration recently. It turns out that, for the momentum-transfer range explored by BELLE, the collinear approximation does not suffice, power corrections to it, modeled as quark transverse moment effects, seem to be needed. Mixing of the <inline-formula id="IEq10"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:msub><mml:mi>f</mml:mi><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msub></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq10_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$f_0$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq10.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> with the <inline-formula id="IEq11"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">σ</mml:mi><mml:mo stretchy="false">(</mml:mo><mml:mn>500</mml:mn><mml:mo stretchy="false">)</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq11_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\sigma (500)$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq11.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> is also briefly discussed.</p></abstract><custom-meta-group><custom-meta><meta-name>volume-issue-count</meta-name><meta-value>12</meta-value></custom-meta><custom-meta><meta-name>issue-article-count</meta-name><meta-value>78</meta-value></custom-meta><custom-meta><meta-name>issue-toc-levels</meta-name><meta-value>0</meta-value></custom-meta><custom-meta><meta-name>issue-type</meta-name><meta-value>Regular</meta-value></custom-meta><custom-meta><meta-name>issue-online-date-year</meta-name><meta-value>2017</meta-value></custom-meta><custom-meta><meta-name>issue-online-date-month</meta-name><meta-value>3</meta-value></custom-meta><custom-meta><meta-name>issue-online-date-day</meta-name><meta-value>20</meta-value></custom-meta><custom-meta><meta-name>issue-pricelist-year</meta-name><meta-value>2017</meta-value></custom-meta><custom-meta><meta-name>issue-copyright-holder</meta-name><meta-value>SIF and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg</meta-value></custom-meta><custom-meta><meta-name>issue-copyright-year</meta-name><meta-value>2017</meta-value></custom-meta><custom-meta><meta-name>article-contains-esm</meta-name><meta-value>No</meta-value></custom-meta><custom-meta><meta-name>article-numbering-style</meta-name><meta-value>ContentOnly</meta-value></custom-meta><custom-meta><meta-name>article-toc-levels</meta-name><meta-value>0</meta-value></custom-meta><custom-meta><meta-name>article-registration-date-year</meta-name><meta-value>2017</meta-value></custom-meta><custom-meta><meta-name>article-registration-date-month</meta-name><meta-value>2</meta-value></custom-meta><custom-meta><meta-name>article-registration-date-day</meta-name><meta-value>1</meta-value></custom-meta><custom-meta><meta-name>article-grants-type</meta-name><meta-value>OpenChoice</meta-value></custom-meta><custom-meta><meta-name>metadata-grant</meta-name><meta-value>OpenAccess</meta-value></custom-meta><custom-meta><meta-name>abstract-grant</meta-name><meta-value>OpenAccess</meta-value></custom-meta><custom-meta><meta-name>bodypdf-grant</meta-name><meta-value>OpenAccess</meta-value></custom-meta><custom-meta><meta-name>bodyhtml-grant</meta-name><meta-value>OpenAccess</meta-value></custom-meta><custom-meta><meta-name>bibliography-grant</meta-name><meta-value>OpenAccess</meta-value></custom-meta><custom-meta><meta-name>esm-grant</meta-name><meta-value>OpenAccess</meta-value></custom-meta></custom-meta-group></article-meta></front><body><sec id="Sec1"><title>Introduction</title><p id="Par2">Recently the BELLE collaboration [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR1">1</xref>] has measured the cross section for <inline-formula id="IEq12"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:msup><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">γ</mml:mi><mml:mo>∗</mml:mo></mml:msup><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">γ</mml:mi><mml:mo stretchy="false">→</mml:mo><mml:msup><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">π</mml:mi><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msup><mml:msup><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">π</mml:mi><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msup></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq12_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\gamma ^*\gamma \rightarrow \pi ^0\pi ^0$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq12.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> for large photon virtuality, <inline-formula id="IEq13"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:msubsup><mml:mi>Q</mml:mi><mml:mn>1</mml:mn><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:msubsup></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq13_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$Q_1^2$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq13.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula>, and small energy in the <inline-formula id="IEq14"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:msup><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">γ</mml:mi><mml:mo>∗</mml:mo></mml:msup><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">γ</mml:mi></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq14_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\gamma ^*\gamma $$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq14.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> center-of-mass system. From these data the photon–meson transition form factors have been extracted for the scalar, <inline-formula id="IEq15"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:msub><mml:mi>f</mml:mi><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msub><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">(</mml:mo><mml:mn>980</mml:mn><mml:mo stretchy="false">)</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq15_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$f_0(980)$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq15.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula>, and tensor, <inline-formula id="IEq16"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:msub><mml:mi>f</mml:mi><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:msub><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">(</mml:mo><mml:mn>1270</mml:mn><mml:mo stretchy="false">)</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq16_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\gamma -f_0$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq18.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> and the <inline-formula id="IEq19"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">γ</mml:mi><mml:mo>-</mml:mo><mml:msub><mml:mi>f</mml:mi><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:msub></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq19_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\gamma -f_2$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq19.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> form factors have been investigated within the NRQCD factorization framework [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR3">3</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR4">4</xref>], in which relativistic corrections and higher Fock state contributions are suppressed by powers of the relativistic velocity of the quarks in the meson, i.e. up to some minor modifications, the light mesons are treated like heavy Quarkonia. Super-convergence relations have been derived in [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR5">5</xref>] and shown to provide constraints on the <inline-formula id="IEq20"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">γ</mml:mi><mml:mo>-</mml:mo><mml:msub><mml:mi>f</mml:mi><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:msub></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq20_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\gamma - f_2$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq20.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> transition form factor. The latter form factor has also been studied within the framework of collinear factorization [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR6">6</xref>]. A phenomenological model for this form factor is discussed in [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR7">7</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR8">8</xref>]. The process <inline-formula id="IEq21"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:msup><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">γ</mml:mi><mml:mo>∗</mml:mo></mml:msup><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">γ</mml:mi><mml:mo stretchy="false">→</mml:mo><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">π</mml:mi><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">π</mml:mi></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq21_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\gamma - f_0$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq22.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> transition form factor.</p><p id="Par3">The <inline-formula id="IEq23"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:msub><mml:mi>f</mml:mi><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msub><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">(</mml:mo><mml:mn>980</mml:mn><mml:mo stretchy="false">)</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq23_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$f_0(980)$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq23.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> meson is a complicated system whose nature is not yet fully understood. Its peculiar properties have led to many speculations about its quark content. A comparison of the partial widths for the <inline-formula id="IEq24"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:msub><mml:mi>f</mml:mi><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msub></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq24_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$f_0$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq24.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> decays into pairs of pions and Kaons [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR10">10</xref>] under regard of the respective phase spaces reveals that the matrix element for <inline-formula id="IEq25"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:msub><mml:mi>f</mml:mi><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msub><mml:mo stretchy="false">→</mml:mo><mml:msup><mml:mi>K</mml:mi><mml:mo>+</mml:mo></mml:msup><mml:msup><mml:mi>K</mml:mi><mml:mo>-</mml:mo></mml:msup></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq25_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$f_0\rightarrow K^+K^-$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq25.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> is much larger than that for <inline-formula id="IEq26"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:msub><mml:mi>f</mml:mi><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msub><mml:mo stretchy="false">→</mml:mo><mml:msup><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">π</mml:mi><mml:mo>+</mml:mo></mml:msup><mml:msup><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">π</mml:mi><mml:mo>-</mml:mo></mml:msup></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq26_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$f_0\rightarrow \pi ^+\pi ^-$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq26.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula>. Thus, if the <inline-formula id="IEq27"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:msub><mml:mi>f</mml:mi><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msub></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq27_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$f_0$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq27.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> is viewed as a quark–antiquark state, it is dominantly an <inline-formula id="IEq28"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:mi>s</mml:mi><mml:mover accent="true"><mml:mrow><mml:mi>s</mml:mi></mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">¯</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:mover></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq28_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$s\bar{s}$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq28.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> state. The comparison of the branching ratios for the radiative decays of the <inline-formula id="IEq29"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">ϕ</mml:mi></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq29_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\phi $$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq29.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula>-meson into the <inline-formula id="IEq30"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:msub><mml:mi>f</mml:mi><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msub></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq30_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$f_0$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq30.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> and <inline-formula id="IEq31"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:msup><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">π</mml:mi><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msup></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq31_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\pi ^0$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq31.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> leads to the same conclusion. However, the <inline-formula id="IEq32"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:msub><mml:mi>f</mml:mi><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msub></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq32_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$f_0$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq32.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula>-meson is not a pure <inline-formula id="IEq33"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:mi>s</mml:mi><mml:mover accent="true"><mml:mrow><mml:mi>s</mml:mi></mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">¯</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:mover></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq33_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$J/\varPsi \rightarrow f_0\omega $$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq34.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> and <inline-formula id="IEq35"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:mi>J</mml:mi><mml:mo stretchy="false">/</mml:mo><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">Ψ</mml:mi><mml:mo stretchy="false">→</mml:mo><mml:msub><mml:mi>f</mml:mi><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msub><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">ϕ</mml:mi></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq35_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$J/\varPsi \rightarrow f_0\phi $$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq35.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula>. This fact is interpreted as <inline-formula id="IEq36"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:msub><mml:mi>f</mml:mi><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msub></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq36_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$f_0 $$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq36.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula>–<inline-formula id="IEq37"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">σ</mml:mi><mml:mo stretchy="false">(</mml:mo><mml:mn>500</mml:mn><mml:mo stretchy="false">)</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq37_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$ \sigma (500)$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq37.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> mixing. Detailed phenomenological analyses of <inline-formula id="IEq38"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:msub><mml:mi>f</mml:mi><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msub></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq38_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\sigma $$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq39.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> mixing in various decay processes [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR11">11</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR14">14</xref>] revealed two ranges for the mixing angle, <inline-formula id="IEq40"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">φ</mml:mi></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq40_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\varphi $$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq40.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula>,<disp-formula id="Equ1"><label>1</label><alternatives><mml:math display="block"><mml:mrow><mml:mtable columnspacing="0.5ex"><mml:mtr><mml:mtd columnalign="right"><mml:mrow><mml:msup><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">(</mml:mo><mml:mn>25</mml:mn><mml:mo>-</mml:mo><mml:mn>40</mml:mn><mml:mo stretchy="false">)</mml:mo></mml:mrow><mml:mo>∘</mml:mo></mml:msup><mml:mspace width="1em"/><mml:msup><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">(</mml:mo><mml:mn>140</mml:mn><mml:mo>-</mml:mo><mml:mn>165</mml:mn><mml:mo stretchy="false">)</mml:mo></mml:mrow><mml:mo>∘</mml:mo></mml:msup></mml:mrow></mml:mtd></mml:mtr></mml:mtable></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="Equ1_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} (25{-}40)^\circ \quad (140{-}165)^\circ \end{aligned}$$\end{document}</tex-math><graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_Equ1.gif" position="anchor"/></alternatives></disp-formula>A light scalar glueball may affect this result [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR11">11</xref>].</p><p id="Par4">As an alternative to the quark–antiquark interpretation other authors [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR15">15</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR16">16</xref>] have suggested a tetraquark configuration for the <inline-formula id="IEq41"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:msub><mml:mi>f</mml:mi><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msub></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq41_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$a_0(980)$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq42.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> and the <inline-formula id="IEq43"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:msub><mml:mi>f</mml:mi><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msub></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq43_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$f_0$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq43.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> mesons are degenerate in mass and are the heaviest particles of the lightest scalar-meson nonet. For the tetraquark interpretation there seems to be no <inline-formula id="IEq44"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:msub><mml:mi>f</mml:mi><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msub></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq44_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\sigma $$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq45.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> mixing [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR13">13</xref>]. The drawback of this picture is that the two-pion decay of the <inline-formula id="IEq46"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:msub><mml:mi>f</mml:mi><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msub></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq46_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$f_0$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq46.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> is too small as compared to experiment whereas the <inline-formula id="IEq47"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:msub><mml:mi>a</mml:mi><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msub><mml:mo stretchy="false">→</mml:mo><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">η</mml:mi><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">π</mml:mi></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq47_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\gamma ^*\gamma ^*\rightarrow q\bar{q}$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq53.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula>) and a soft hadronic matrix element, parametrized as a light-cone wave function, which is under control of soft, long-distance QCD. As any hadron the <inline-formula id="IEq54"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:msub><mml:mi>f</mml:mi><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msub></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq54_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$f_0$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq54.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula>-meson possesses a Fock decomposition [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR20">20</xref>] starting with the simple quark–antiquark components<disp-formula id="Equ2"><label>2</label><alternatives><mml:math display="block"><mml:mrow><mml:mtable columnspacing="0.5ex"><mml:mtr><mml:mtd columnalign="right"><mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">|</mml:mo></mml:mrow><mml:msub><mml:mi>f</mml:mi><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msub><mml:mrow><mml:mo>;</mml:mo><mml:mi>p</mml:mi><mml:mo stretchy="false">⟩</mml:mo><mml:mo>=</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:mrow></mml:mtd><mml:mtd columnalign="left"><mml:mrow><mml:mrow/><mml:munder><mml:mo>∑</mml:mo><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">β</mml:mi></mml:munder><mml:mo>∫</mml:mo><mml:msub><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">[</mml:mo><mml:mi mathvariant="normal">d</mml:mi><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">τ</mml:mi><mml:mo stretchy="false">]</mml:mo></mml:mrow><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:msub><mml:msub><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">[</mml:mo><mml:msup><mml:mrow><mml:mi mathvariant="normal">d</mml:mi></mml:mrow><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:msup><mml:msub><mml:mi mathvariant="bold">k</mml:mi><mml:mo>⊥</mml:mo></mml:msub><mml:mo stretchy="false">]</mml:mo></mml:mrow><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:msub><mml:msub><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">Ψ</mml:mi><mml:mrow><mml:mn>2</mml:mn><mml:mo>,</mml:mo><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">β</mml:mi></mml:mrow></mml:msub><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">(</mml:mo><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">τ</mml:mi><mml:mo>,</mml:mo><mml:msub><mml:mi mathvariant="bold">k</mml:mi><mml:mo>⊥</mml:mo></mml:msub><mml:mo stretchy="false">)</mml:mo></mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">|</mml:mo><mml:mi>q</mml:mi><mml:mover accent="true"><mml:mrow><mml:mi>q</mml:mi></mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">¯</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:mover><mml:mo>,</mml:mo><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">β</mml:mi><mml:mo>;</mml:mo><mml:msub><mml:mi>k</mml:mi><mml:mn>1</mml:mn></mml:msub><mml:mo>,</mml:mo><mml:msub><mml:mi>k</mml:mi><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:msub><mml:mo stretchy="false">⟩</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:mrow></mml:mtd></mml:mtr><mml:mtr><mml:mtd columnalign="right"><mml:mrow/></mml:mtd><mml:mtd columnalign="left"><mml:mrow><mml:mo>+</mml:mo><mml:mspace width="0.166667em"/><mml:mtext>higher Fock states</mml:mtext></mml:mrow></mml:mtd></mml:mtr></mml:mtable></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="Equ2_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned}&amp;[\mathrm{d}\tau ]_2 = \mathrm{d}\tau _1\mathrm{d}\tau _2\,\delta (1-\tau _1-\tau _2), \nonumber \\&amp;{[\mathrm{d}^2 \mathbf{k}_{\perp }]}_2= \frac{\mathrm{d}^2\mathbf{k}_{\perp 1}\mathrm{d}^2\mathbf{k}_{\perp 2}}{16\pi ^3}\, \delta ^{(2)}(\mathbf{k}_{\perp 1}+\mathbf{k}_{\perp 2}-\mathbf{p}_\perp ). \end{aligned}$$\end{document}</tex-math><graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_Equ3.gif" position="anchor"/></alternatives></disp-formula>In the photon—photon interactions at large photon virtualities the <inline-formula id="IEq58"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:msub><mml:mi>f</mml:mi><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msub></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq58_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$f_0$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq58.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula>-meson is generated through its lowest Fock components, mainly the <inline-formula id="IEq59"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:mi>s</mml:mi><mml:mover accent="true"><mml:mrow><mml:mi>s</mml:mi></mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">¯</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:mover></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq59_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$s\bar{s}$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq59.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> one. As can be shown [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR19">19</xref>] the hard generation of the <inline-formula id="IEq60"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:msub><mml:mi>f</mml:mi><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msub></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq60_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$f_0$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq60.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> through higher Fock components is suppressed by inverse powers of the photon virtuality and is therefore neglected. Once the meson is produced it gets dressed by fluctuations into higher Fock components under the effect of long-distance QCD. The calculation of the <inline-formula id="IEq61"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:msup><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">γ</mml:mi><mml:mo>∗</mml:mo></mml:msup></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq61_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\gamma ^*$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq61.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula>–<inline-formula id="IEq62"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:msub><mml:mi>f</mml:mi><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msub></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq62_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$f_0$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq62.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> transition form factors is similar to the one of the photon–pseudoscalar-meson form factors [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR19">19</xref>]. The latter calculation is to be generalized in such a way that also hadrons with non-zero orbital angular between their constituents can be treated.</p><p id="Par6">The paper is organized as follows: In the next section the spin part of the light-cone wave function, termed the spin wave function, of the <inline-formula id="IEq63"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:msub><mml:mi>f</mml:mi><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msub></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq63_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\gamma ^*-f_0$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq66.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> transition form factors are defined in Sect. <xref rid="Sec6" ref-type="sec">3.1</xref>, followed by a LO perturbative calculation within the modified perturbative approach in which quark transverse degrees of freedom are retained (Sect. <xref rid="Sec7" ref-type="sec">3.2</xref>). Numerical results for the form factors in the real-photon limit are given in Sect. <xref rid="Sec9" ref-type="sec">4.1</xref> and compared to the BELLE data. Some comments on the behavior of the <inline-formula id="IEq67"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:msup><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">γ</mml:mi><mml:mo>∗</mml:mo></mml:msup><mml:mo>-</mml:mo><mml:msub><mml:mi>f</mml:mi><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msub></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq67_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$K^\mu $$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq74.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> removed from it. As discussed in detail in Ref. [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR23">23</xref>] the covariant spin wave function can be constructed starting from the observation [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR24">24</xref>] that, in zero binding energy approximation, an equal-time hadron state (in the spin basis) in the constituent center-of-mass frame equals the (helicity) light-cone state at rest. Consequently, one can use the standard <italic>ls</italic> coupling scheme in order to couple quark and antiquark to a state of given spin and parity. On boosting the results to a frame with arbitrary hadron momentum one easily reads off the covariant spin wave function.<xref ref-type="fn" rid="Fn1">1</xref></p><p id="Par9">Since the <inline-formula id="IEq76"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:msub><mml:mi>f</mml:mi><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msub><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">(</mml:mo><mml:mn>980</mml:mn><mml:mo stretchy="false">)</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq76_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$f_0(980)$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq76.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula>-meson is a <inline-formula id="IEq77"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:msup><mml:mi>J</mml:mi><mml:mrow><mml:mi>P</mml:mi><mml:mi>C</mml:mi></mml:mrow></mml:msup><mml:mo>=</mml:mo><mml:msup><mml:mn>0</mml:mn><mml:mrow><mml:mo>+</mml:mo><mml:mo>+</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:msup></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq77_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$J^{PC}= 0^{++}$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq77.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> state the quark and antiquark have to couple in a spin-1 state and one unit of orbital angular momenta is required.<xref ref-type="fn" rid="Fn2">2</xref> The <italic>ls</italic> coupling scheme leads to the following ansatz for the spin wave function of a final state meson in its rest frame [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR23">23</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR25">25</xref>] (<inline-formula id="IEq80"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:msub><mml:mover accent="true"><mml:mrow><mml:mi>S</mml:mi></mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">¯</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:mover><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msub><mml:mo>=</mml:mo><mml:msub><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">γ</mml:mi><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msub><mml:msup><mml:mi>S</mml:mi><mml:mo>†</mml:mo></mml:msup><mml:msub><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">γ</mml:mi><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msub></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq80_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\bar{S}_0=\gamma _0S^\dagger \gamma _0$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq80.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula>):<disp-formula id="Equ4"><label>4</label><graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Equ4_HTML.gif" position="anchor"/></disp-formula>Note that <inline-formula id="IEq81"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:msub><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">μ</mml:mi><mml:mn>1</mml:mn></mml:msub><mml:mo>,</mml:mo><mml:msub><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">μ</mml:mi><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:msub></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq81_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$v, \bar{u}$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq82.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> are equal-t spinors here. In the meson’s rest frame the meson and the constituent momenta read<disp-formula id="Equ5"><label>5</label><alternatives><mml:math display="block"><mml:mrow><mml:mtable columnspacing="0.5ex"><mml:mtr><mml:mtd columnalign="right"><mml:mrow><mml:msup><mml:mover accent="true"><mml:mi>p</mml:mi><mml:mo stretchy="false">^</mml:mo></mml:mover><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">μ</mml:mi></mml:msup><mml:mo>=</mml:mo><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">(</mml:mo><mml:msub><mml:mi>M</mml:mi><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msub><mml:mo>,</mml:mo><mml:mn mathvariant="bold">0</mml:mn><mml:mo stretchy="false">)</mml:mo></mml:mrow><mml:mo>,</mml:mo><mml:mspace width="1em"/><mml:msubsup><mml:mover accent="true"><mml:mi>p</mml:mi><mml:mo stretchy="false">^</mml:mo></mml:mover><mml:mn>1</mml:mn><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">μ</mml:mi></mml:msubsup><mml:mo>=</mml:mo><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">(</mml:mo><mml:msub><mml:mi>m</mml:mi><mml:mn>1</mml:mn></mml:msub><mml:mo>,</mml:mo><mml:mi mathvariant="bold">k</mml:mi><mml:mo stretchy="false">)</mml:mo></mml:mrow><mml:mo>,</mml:mo><mml:mspace width="1em"/><mml:msubsup><mml:mover accent="true"><mml:mi>p</mml:mi><mml:mo stretchy="false">^</mml:mo></mml:mover><mml:mn>2</mml:mn><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">μ</mml:mi></mml:msubsup><mml:mo>=</mml:mo><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">(</mml:mo><mml:msub><mml:mi>m</mml:mi><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:msub><mml:mo>,</mml:mo><mml:mo>-</mml:mo><mml:mi mathvariant="bold">k</mml:mi><mml:mo stretchy="false">)</mml:mo></mml:mrow><mml:mo>,</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:mtd></mml:mtr></mml:mtable></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="Equ5_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} \hat{p}^{\mu } =(M_0,\mathbf{0}), \quad \hat{p}_1^{\mu } =(m_1,\mathbf{k}), \quad \hat{p}_2^{\mu }=(m_2,-\mathbf{k}), \end{aligned}$$\end{document}</tex-math><graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_Equ5.gif" position="anchor"/></alternatives></disp-formula>where <inline-formula id="IEq83"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mi mathvariant="bold">k</mml:mi></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq83_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\mathbf{k}$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq83.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> is the three-momentum part of the relative momentum of quark and antiquark<disp-formula id="Equ6"><label>6</label><alternatives><mml:math display="block"><mml:mrow><mml:mtable columnspacing="0.5ex"><mml:mtr><mml:mtd columnalign="right"><mml:mrow><mml:mi mathvariant="bold">k</mml:mi><mml:mo>=</mml:mo><mml:mfrac><mml:mn>1</mml:mn><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:mfrac><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">(</mml:mo><mml:msub><mml:mover accent="true"><mml:mi mathvariant="bold">p</mml:mi><mml:mo stretchy="false">^</mml:mo></mml:mover><mml:mn>1</mml:mn></mml:msub><mml:mo>-</mml:mo><mml:msub><mml:mover accent="true"><mml:mi mathvariant="bold">p</mml:mi><mml:mo stretchy="false">^</mml:mo></mml:mover><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:msub><mml:mo stretchy="false">)</mml:mo></mml:mrow><mml:mo>.</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:mtd></mml:mtr></mml:mtable></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="Equ6_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} \mathbf{k} =\frac{1}{2}(\hat{\mathbf{p}}_1 - \hat{\mathbf{p}}_2). \end{aligned}$$\end{document}</tex-math><graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_Equ6.gif" position="anchor"/></alternatives></disp-formula>In order to retain a covariant formulation, the four-vector <inline-formula id="IEq84"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:mi>K</mml:mi><mml:mo>=</mml:mo><mml:mo stretchy="false">(</mml:mo><mml:mn>0</mml:mn><mml:mo>,</mml:mo><mml:mi mathvariant="bold">k</mml:mi><mml:mo stretchy="false">)</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq84_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$K=(0,\mathbf{k})$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq84.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> is introduced.<xref ref-type="fn" rid="Fn3">3</xref> As is customary in the parton model, the binding energy is neglected and the constituents are considered as quasi-on-shell particles. That possibly crude approximation can be achieved by putting the minus components of the constituents to zero. Hence, <inline-formula id="IEq89"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:msub><mml:mi>k</mml:mi><mml:mn>3</mml:mn></mml:msub><mml:mo>=</mml:mo><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq89_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$k_3=0$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq89.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> and our relative vector reduces to<disp-formula id="Equ7"><label>7</label><alternatives><mml:math display="block"><mml:mrow><mml:mtable columnspacing="0.5ex"><mml:mtr><mml:mtd columnalign="right"><mml:mrow><mml:mi>K</mml:mi><mml:mo>=</mml:mo><mml:mo stretchy="false">[</mml:mo><mml:mn>0</mml:mn><mml:mspace width="0.166667em"/><mml:mn>0</mml:mn><mml:mspace width="0.166667em"/><mml:msub><mml:mi mathvariant="bold">k</mml:mi><mml:mo>⊥</mml:mo></mml:msub><mml:mo stretchy="false">]</mml:mo><mml:mo>.</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:mtd></mml:mtr></mml:mtable></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="Equ7_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} K = [0\, 0\, \mathbf{k}_{\perp }]. \end{aligned}$$\end{document}</tex-math><graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_Equ7.gif" position="anchor"/></alternatives></disp-formula>In this case the spin wave function (<xref rid="Equ4" ref-type="disp-formula">4</xref>) reads<disp-formula id="Equ8"><label>8</label><alternatives><mml:math display="block"><mml:mrow><mml:mtable columnspacing="0.5ex"><mml:mtr><mml:mtd columnalign="right"><mml:mrow><mml:msub><mml:mover accent="true"><mml:mrow><mml:mi>S</mml:mi></mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">¯</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:mover><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msub><mml:mo>=</mml:mo><mml:mfrac><mml:mn>1</mml:mn><mml:msqrt><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:msqrt></mml:mfrac><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">[</mml:mo><mml:msub><mml:mi>k</mml:mi><mml:mrow><mml:mo>⊥</mml:mo><mml:mo>+</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:msub><mml:mi>v</mml:mi><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">(</mml:mo><mml:msub><mml:mover accent="true"><mml:mi>p</mml:mi><mml:mo stretchy="false">^</mml:mo></mml:mover><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:msub><mml:mo>,</mml:mo><mml:mo>+</mml:mo><mml:mo stretchy="false">)</mml:mo></mml:mrow><mml:mover accent="true"><mml:mrow><mml:mi>u</mml:mi></mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">¯</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:mover><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">(</mml:mo><mml:msub><mml:mover accent="true"><mml:mi>p</mml:mi><mml:mo stretchy="false">^</mml:mo></mml:mover><mml:mn>1</mml:mn></mml:msub><mml:mo>,</mml:mo><mml:mo>+</mml:mo><mml:mo stretchy="false">)</mml:mo></mml:mrow><mml:mo>-</mml:mo><mml:msub><mml:mi>k</mml:mi><mml:mrow><mml:mo>⊥</mml:mo><mml:mo>-</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:msub><mml:mi>v</mml:mi><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">(</mml:mo><mml:msub><mml:mover accent="true"><mml:mi>p</mml:mi><mml:mo stretchy="false">^</mml:mo></mml:mover><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:msub><mml:mo>,</mml:mo><mml:mo>-</mml:mo><mml:mo stretchy="false">)</mml:mo></mml:mrow><mml:mover accent="true"><mml:mrow><mml:mi>u</mml:mi></mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">¯</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:mover><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">(</mml:mo><mml:msub><mml:mover accent="true"><mml:mi>p</mml:mi><mml:mo stretchy="false">^</mml:mo></mml:mover><mml:mn>1</mml:mn></mml:msub><mml:mo>,</mml:mo><mml:mo>-</mml:mo><mml:mo stretchy="false">)</mml:mo></mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">]</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:mrow></mml:mtd></mml:mtr><mml:mtr><mml:mtd columnalign="right"><mml:mrow/></mml:mtd></mml:mtr></mml:mtable></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="Equ8_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} p_1^2= &amp; {} m_1^2=\tau ^2M_0^2 + \mathcal{O}(k^2_\perp ), \nonumber \\ p_2^2= &amp; {} m_2^2=\bar{\tau }^2M_0^2 + \mathcal{O}(k^2_\perp ). \end{aligned}$$\end{document}</tex-math><graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_Equ10.gif" position="anchor"/></alternatives></disp-formula>The boost to the IMF leads to<disp-formula id="Equ11"><label>11</label><graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Equ11_HTML.gif" position="anchor"/></disp-formula>For convenience the variable <inline-formula id="IEq100"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">ξ</mml:mi><mml:mo>=</mml:mo><mml:mn>1</mml:mn><mml:mo>-</mml:mo><mml:mn>2</mml:mn><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">τ</mml:mi></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq100_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} \mathcal{M} = A_0(\xi ) + K^\alpha A_{1\alpha }(\xi ) + \mathcal{O}(K^\alpha K^\beta ) \end{aligned}$$\end{document}</tex-math><graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_Equ15.gif" position="anchor"/></alternatives></disp-formula>where <inline-formula id="IEq114"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:msub><mml:mi>A</mml:mi><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msub></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq114_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$k_\perp $$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq117.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula>-integration yields<disp-formula id="Equ16"><label>16</label><graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Equ16_HTML.gif" position="anchor"/></disp-formula>Formally this is equivalent to the replacement<disp-formula id="Equ17"><label>17</label><graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Equ17_HTML.gif" position="anchor"/></disp-formula>The transverse metric tensor is defined by <inline-formula id="IEq118"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:msubsup><mml:mi>g</mml:mi><mml:mo>⊥</mml:mo><mml:mn>11</mml:mn></mml:msubsup><mml:mo>=</mml:mo><mml:msubsup><mml:mi>g</mml:mi><mml:mo>⊥</mml:mo><mml:mn>22</mml:mn></mml:msubsup><mml:mo>=</mml:mo><mml:mo>-</mml:mo><mml:mn>1</mml:mn></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq118_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$g_\perp ^{11}=g_\perp ^{22}=-1$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq118.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula>, while all other components are zero in a frame where the meson moves along the 3-direction. In the collinear limit the spin wave function becomes<disp-formula id="Equ18"><label>18</label><graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Equ18_HTML.gif" position="anchor"/></disp-formula>Multiplying the spin wave function with the reduced wave function and integrating over <inline-formula id="IEq119"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:msub><mml:mi>k</mml:mi><mml:mo>⊥</mml:mo></mml:msub></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq119_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} \bar{f}_0(\mu _F)=\bar{f}_0(\mu _0) \left( \frac{\alpha _\mathrm{s}(\mu _0)}{\alpha _\mathrm{s}(\mu _F)}\right) ^{4/\beta _0}. \end{aligned}$$\end{document}</tex-math><graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_Equ23.gif" position="anchor"/></alternatives></disp-formula>The other terms in (<xref rid="Equ18" ref-type="disp-formula">18</xref>) are of twist-3 nature although they do not correspond to the full twist-3 contributions since, in general, they also receive contributions from a second reduced wave function. This is, however, of no relevance for the purpose of the present paper, namely the calculation of the <inline-formula id="IEq129"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:msup><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">γ</mml:mi><mml:mo>∗</mml:mo></mml:msup><mml:mo>-</mml:mo><mml:msub><mml:mi>f</mml:mi><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msub></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq129_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} \varPhi _{0s}(\xi ,\mu _F)= &amp; {} \frac{1}{\xi } \varPhi _0(\xi ,\mu _F), \nonumber \\ \varPhi _{0\sigma }(\xi ,\mu _F)= &amp; {} \frac{1-\xi ^2}{4\xi } \varPhi _0(\xi ,\mu _F). \end{aligned}$$\end{document}</tex-math><graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_Equ24.gif" position="anchor"/></alternatives></disp-formula>Both these distribution amplitudes are symmetric in <inline-formula id="IEq132"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">ξ</mml:mi></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq132_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} \varPsi _{0}=c\sum _{n=0,2\ldots } \tilde{B}_n C_n^{3/2}(\xi )\exp {\left[ -4\frac{a_0^2 k_\perp ^2}{1-\xi ^2}\right] } \end{aligned}$$\end{document}</tex-math><graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_Equ26.gif" position="anchor"/></alternatives></disp-formula>with<disp-formula id="Equ27"><label>27</label><alternatives><mml:math display="block"><mml:mrow><mml:mtable columnspacing="0.5ex"><mml:mtr><mml:mtd columnalign="right"><mml:mrow><mml:mi>c</mml:mi><mml:mo>=</mml:mo><mml:mn>16</mml:mn><mml:msup><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">π</mml:mi><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:msup><mml:msqrt><mml:mrow><mml:mn>2</mml:mn><mml:msub><mml:mi>N</mml:mi><mml:mi>c</mml:mi></mml:msub></mml:mrow></mml:msqrt><mml:msub><mml:mover accent="true"><mml:mrow><mml:mi>f</mml:mi></mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">¯</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:mover><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msub><mml:msub><mml:mi>M</mml:mi><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msub><mml:msubsup><mml:mi>a</mml:mi><mml:mn>0</mml:mn><mml:mn>4</mml:mn></mml:msubsup><mml:mo>.</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:mtd></mml:mtr></mml:mtable></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="Equ27_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} c=16\pi ^2 \sqrt{2N_c} \bar{f}_0 M_0 a_0^4. \end{aligned}$$\end{document}</tex-math><graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_Equ27.gif" position="anchor"/></alternatives></disp-formula>This wave function is similar to the one for the pion advocated for in [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR20">20</xref>]. It has been used for instance in the calculation of the photon–pseudoscalar transition form factors [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR33">33</xref>] or in the analysis of pion electroproduction [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR34">34</xref>]. Insertion of the wave function into Eq. (<xref rid="Equ19" ref-type="disp-formula">19</xref>) leads to the associated distribution amplitude (<xref rid="Equ20" ref-type="disp-formula">20</xref>) with the Gegenbauer coefficients (<italic>m</italic> is an odd integer)<disp-formula id="Equ28"><label>28</label><alternatives><mml:math display="block"><mml:mrow><mml:mtable columnspacing="0.5ex"><mml:mtr><mml:mtd columnalign="right"><mml:mrow><mml:msub><mml:mi>B</mml:mi><mml:mi>m</mml:mi></mml:msub><mml:mo>=</mml:mo><mml:mfrac><mml:mi>m</mml:mi><mml:mrow><mml:mn>2</mml:mn><mml:mi>m</mml:mi><mml:mo>+</mml:mo><mml:mn>1</mml:mn></mml:mrow></mml:mfrac><mml:msub><mml:mover accent="true"><mml:mi>B</mml:mi><mml:mo stretchy="false">~</mml:mo></mml:mover><mml:mrow><mml:mi>m</mml:mi><mml:mo>-</mml:mo><mml:mn>1</mml:mn></mml:mrow></mml:msub><mml:mo>+</mml:mo><mml:mfrac><mml:mrow><mml:mi>m</mml:mi><mml:mo>+</mml:mo><mml:mn>3</mml:mn></mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mn>2</mml:mn><mml:mi>m</mml:mi><mml:mo>+</mml:mo><mml:mn>5</mml:mn></mml:mrow></mml:mfrac><mml:msub><mml:mover accent="true"><mml:mi>B</mml:mi><mml:mo stretchy="false">~</mml:mo></mml:mover><mml:mrow><mml:mi>m</mml:mi><mml:mo>+</mml:mo><mml:mn>1</mml:mn></mml:mrow></mml:msub><mml:mo>.</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:mtd></mml:mtr></mml:mtable></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="Equ28_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} B_m=\frac{m}{2m+1} \tilde{B}_{m-1} + \frac{m+3}{2m+5} \tilde{B}_{m+1}. \end{aligned}$$\end{document}</tex-math><graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_Equ28.gif" position="anchor"/></alternatives></disp-formula>As a consequence of charge conjugation invariance which forces <inline-formula id="IEq137"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:msub><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">Ψ</mml:mi><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msub></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq137_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} \langle f_0;p|\bar{s}(0)s(0)|0\rangle = M_0\bar{f}_0 = \frac{\sqrt{N_c}}{2} \int \mathrm{d}\xi \frac{\mathrm{d}k^2_\perp }{16\pi ^2} \varPsi _0 \mathrm{Tr}[\bar{S}_0].\nonumber \\ \end{aligned}$$\end{document}</tex-math><graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_Equ30.gif" position="anchor"/></alternatives></disp-formula>Evaluation of the integral leads to <inline-formula id="IEq139"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:msub><mml:mover accent="true"><mml:mi>B</mml:mi><mml:mo stretchy="false">~</mml:mo></mml:mover><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msub><mml:mo>≃</mml:mo><mml:mo>-</mml:mo><mml:mn>1</mml:mn></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq139_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} \varPsi _{01}= 3cB_1\exp {\left[ -4\frac{a_0^2 k_\perp ^2}{1-\xi ^2}\right] } \end{aligned}$$\end{document}</tex-math><graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_Equ31.gif" position="anchor"/></alternatives></disp-formula>with<disp-formula id="Equ32"><label>32</label><alternatives><mml:math display="block"><mml:mrow><mml:mtable columnspacing="0.5ex"><mml:mtr><mml:mtd columnalign="right"><mml:mrow><mml:msub><mml:mi>B</mml:mi><mml:mn>1</mml:mn></mml:msub><mml:mo>≃</mml:mo><mml:msub><mml:mover accent="true"><mml:mi>B</mml:mi><mml:mo stretchy="false">~</mml:mo></mml:mover><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msub><mml:mo stretchy="false">/</mml:mo><mml:mn>3</mml:mn><mml:mo>≃</mml:mo><mml:mo>-</mml:mo><mml:mn>1</mml:mn><mml:mo stretchy="false">/</mml:mo><mml:mn>3</mml:mn><mml:mo>.</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:mtd></mml:mtr></mml:mtable></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="Equ32_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} \sqrt{\langle k^2_\perp \rangle }=\sqrt{\frac{3}{14}}\,\frac{1}{a_0}. \end{aligned}$$\end{document}</tex-math><graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_Equ34.gif" position="anchor"/></alternatives></disp-formula>For the value <inline-formula id="IEq147"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:msub><mml:mi>a</mml:mi><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msub><mml:mo>=</mml:mo><mml:mn>0.8</mml:mn><mml:mspace width="3.33333pt"/><mml:msup><mml:mrow><mml:mi mathvariant="normal">GeV</mml:mi></mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mo>-</mml:mo><mml:mn>1</mml:mn></mml:mrow></mml:msup></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq147_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$ f_0$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq155.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> transition form factors</title><sec id="Sec6"><title>The definition of the form factors</title><p id="Par19">Let us consider the general case of two virtual photons<disp-formula id="Equ36"><label>36</label><alternatives><mml:math display="block"><mml:mrow><mml:mtable columnspacing="0.5ex"><mml:mtr><mml:mtd columnalign="right"><mml:mrow><mml:msup><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">γ</mml:mi><mml:mo>∗</mml:mo></mml:msup><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">(</mml:mo><mml:msub><mml:mi>q</mml:mi><mml:mn>1</mml:mn></mml:msub><mml:mo>,</mml:mo><mml:msub><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">λ</mml:mi><mml:mn>1</mml:mn></mml:msub><mml:mo stretchy="false">)</mml:mo></mml:mrow><mml:mo>+</mml:mo><mml:msup><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">γ</mml:mi><mml:mo>∗</mml:mo></mml:msup><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">(</mml:mo><mml:msub><mml:mi>q</mml:mi><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:msub><mml:mo>,</mml:mo><mml:msub><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">λ</mml:mi><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:msub><mml:mo stretchy="false">)</mml:mo></mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">→</mml:mo><mml:msub><mml:mi>f</mml:mi><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msub><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">(</mml:mo><mml:mi>p</mml:mi><mml:mo stretchy="false">)</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:mrow></mml:mtd></mml:mtr></mml:mtable></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="Equ36_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} q_1^2=-Q_1^2, \quad q_2^2=-Q_2^2, \quad p^2=M_0^2. \end{aligned}$$\end{document}</tex-math><graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_Equ37.gif" position="anchor"/></alternatives></disp-formula>It is convenient to introduce the following variables [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR37">37</xref>]:<disp-formula id="Equ38"><label>38</label><alternatives><mml:math display="block"><mml:mrow><mml:mtable columnspacing="0.5ex"><mml:mtr><mml:mtd columnalign="right"><mml:mrow><mml:msup><mml:mover><mml:mi>Q</mml:mi><mml:mo>¯</mml:mo></mml:mover><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:msup><mml:mo>=</mml:mo><mml:mfrac><mml:mn>1</mml:mn><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:mfrac><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">(</mml:mo><mml:msubsup><mml:mi>Q</mml:mi><mml:mn>1</mml:mn><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:msubsup><mml:mo>+</mml:mo><mml:msubsup><mml:mi>Q</mml:mi><mml:mn>2</mml:mn><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:msubsup><mml:mo stretchy="false">)</mml:mo></mml:mrow><mml:mo>,</mml:mo><mml:mspace width="1em"/><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">ω</mml:mi><mml:mo>=</mml:mo><mml:mfrac><mml:mrow><mml:msubsup><mml:mi>Q</mml:mi><mml:mn>1</mml:mn><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:msubsup><mml:mo>-</mml:mo><mml:msubsup><mml:mi>Q</mml:mi><mml:mn>2</mml:mn><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:msubsup></mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:msubsup><mml:mi>Q</mml:mi><mml:mn>1</mml:mn><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:msubsup><mml:mo>+</mml:mo><mml:msubsup><mml:mi>Q</mml:mi><mml:mn>2</mml:mn><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:msubsup></mml:mrow></mml:mfrac></mml:mrow></mml:mtd></mml:mtr></mml:mtable></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="Equ38_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} j^\mu _\mathrm{em}= e_u \bar{u}(x)\gamma ^\mu u(x) + e_d \bar{d}(x)\gamma ^\mu d(x) + e_s \bar{s}(x)\gamma ^\mu s(x)\nonumber \\ \end{aligned}$$\end{document}</tex-math><graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_Equ40.gif" position="anchor"/></alternatives></disp-formula>and <inline-formula id="IEq159"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:msub><mml:mi>e</mml:mi><mml:mi>i</mml:mi></mml:msub></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq159_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} \varGamma ^{\mu \nu }= &amp; {} ie_0^2 \frac{q_1\cdot q_2}{M_0} \left\{ \left[ -g^{\mu \nu } + \frac{1}{\overline{Q}^4\kappa } [q_1\cdot q_2(q_1^\mu q_2^\nu +q_2^\mu q_1^\nu ) \right. \right. \nonumber \\&amp;\left. +\, Q_1^2 q_2^\mu q_2^\nu + Q_2^2 q_1^\mu q_1^\nu )]\right] \,F_T(\overline{Q}^2,\omega )\nonumber \\&amp;-\,\frac{q_1\cdot q_2}{\overline{Q}^4\kappa } \left[ q_1^\mu + \frac{Q_1^2}{q_1\cdot q_2}q_2^\mu \right] \left[ q_2^\nu + \frac{Q_2^2}{q_1\cdot q_2}q_1^\nu \right] \nonumber \\&amp;\left. \times \, F_L(\overline{Q}^2,\omega ) \phantom {\frac{1}{\overline{Q}^4\kappa }}\right\} \end{aligned}$$\end{document}</tex-math><graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_Equ41.gif" position="anchor"/></alternatives></disp-formula>where<disp-formula id="Equ42"><label>42</label><alternatives><mml:math display="block"><mml:mrow><mml:mtable columnspacing="0.5ex"><mml:mtr><mml:mtd columnalign="right"><mml:mrow><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">κ</mml:mi><mml:mo>=</mml:mo><mml:mfrac><mml:msup><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">(</mml:mo><mml:msub><mml:mi>q</mml:mi><mml:mn>1</mml:mn></mml:msub><mml:mo>·</mml:mo><mml:msub><mml:mi>q</mml:mi><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:msub><mml:mo stretchy="false">)</mml:mo></mml:mrow><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:msup><mml:msup><mml:mover><mml:mi>Q</mml:mi><mml:mo>¯</mml:mo></mml:mover><mml:mn>4</mml:mn></mml:msup></mml:mfrac><mml:mo>-</mml:mo><mml:mn>1</mml:mn><mml:mo>+</mml:mo><mml:msup><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">ω</mml:mi><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:msup><mml:mo>=</mml:mo><mml:msup><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">ω</mml:mi><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:msup><mml:mo>+</mml:mo><mml:mfrac><mml:msubsup><mml:mi>M</mml:mi><mml:mn>0</mml:mn><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:msubsup><mml:msup><mml:mover><mml:mi>Q</mml:mi><mml:mo>¯</mml:mo></mml:mover><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:msup></mml:mfrac><mml:mo>+</mml:mo><mml:mfrac><mml:msubsup><mml:mi>M</mml:mi><mml:mn>0</mml:mn><mml:mn>4</mml:mn></mml:msubsup><mml:mrow><mml:mn>4</mml:mn><mml:msup><mml:mover><mml:mi>Q</mml:mi><mml:mo>¯</mml:mo></mml:mover><mml:mn>4</mml:mn></mml:msup></mml:mrow></mml:mfrac><mml:mspace width="0.166667em"/></mml:mrow></mml:mtd></mml:mtr></mml:mtable></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="Equ42_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} q_{1\mu }\varGamma ^{\mu \nu }=0,\quad q_{2\nu }\varGamma ^{\mu \nu }=0. \end{aligned}$$\end{document}</tex-math><graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_Equ43.gif" position="anchor"/></alternatives></disp-formula>As one sees from (<xref rid="Equ41" ref-type="disp-formula">41</xref>) there are two form factors, one for transverse photon polarization, <inline-formula id="IEq162"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:msub><mml:mi>F</mml:mi><mml:mi>T</mml:mi></mml:msub></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq162_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$F_L$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq163.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula>. By definition the form factors are dimensionless.</p><p id="Par21">Contracting the vertex function with the polarization vectors of the photons and using transversality (<inline-formula id="IEq164"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:msub><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">ϵ</mml:mi><mml:mi>i</mml:mi></mml:msub><mml:msub><mml:mi>q</mml:mi><mml:mi>i</mml:mi></mml:msub><mml:mo>=</mml:mo><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq164_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} g_1^2= -\overline{Q}^2(1+\xi \omega )-k_\perp ^2,\quad g_2^2= -\overline{Q}^2(1-\xi \omega )-k_\perp ^2.\nonumber \\ \end{aligned}$$\end{document}</tex-math><graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_Equ48.gif" position="anchor"/></alternatives></disp-formula>Taking into consideration that the traces are only non-zero for even numbers of <inline-formula id="IEq172"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">γ</mml:mi></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq172_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} F_T(Q_1^2,1)= &amp; {} -8\sqrt{2N_c}\frac{e_s^2}{Q_1^2} \int \frac{\mathrm{d}\xi \mathrm{d}k^2_\perp }{16\pi ^2} k^2_\perp \varPsi _0(\xi ,k_\perp )\nonumber \\&amp;\times \frac{\xi ^2}{1-\xi ^2}\, \frac{1}{1-\xi ^2+4k^2_\perp /Q_1^2}. \end{aligned}$$\end{document}</tex-math><graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_Equ53.gif" position="anchor"/></alternatives></disp-formula>For a wave function of the type (<xref rid="Equ26" ref-type="disp-formula">26</xref>) one can write Eq. (<xref rid="Equ53" ref-type="disp-formula">53</xref>) as<disp-formula id="Equ54"><label>54</label><alternatives><mml:math display="block"><mml:mrow><mml:mtable columnspacing="0.5ex"><mml:mtr><mml:mtd columnalign="right"><mml:mrow><mml:msub><mml:mi>F</mml:mi><mml:mi>T</mml:mi></mml:msub><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">(</mml:mo><mml:msubsup><mml:mi>Q</mml:mi><mml:mn>1</mml:mn><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:msubsup><mml:mo>,</mml:mo><mml:mn>1</mml:mn><mml:mo stretchy="false">)</mml:mo></mml:mrow><mml:mo>=</mml:mo><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">ϱ</mml:mi><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">(</mml:mo><mml:msubsup><mml:mi>a</mml:mi><mml:mn>0</mml:mn><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:msubsup><mml:msubsup><mml:mi>Q</mml:mi><mml:mn>1</mml:mn><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:msubsup><mml:mo stretchy="false">)</mml:mo></mml:mrow><mml:mspace width="0.166667em"/><mml:msubsup><mml:mi>F</mml:mi><mml:mi>T</mml:mi><mml:mi mathvariant="normal">coll</mml:mi></mml:msubsup><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">(</mml:mo><mml:msubsup><mml:mi>Q</mml:mi><mml:mn>1</mml:mn><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:msubsup><mml:mo>,</mml:mo><mml:mn>1</mml:mn><mml:mo stretchy="false">)</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:mrow></mml:mtd></mml:mtr></mml:mtable></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="Equ54_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} \varrho (x)=\int \mathrm{d}K\frac{K e^{-K}}{1+K/x}. \end{aligned}$$\end{document}</tex-math><graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_Equ56.gif" position="anchor"/></alternatives></disp-formula>For this type of wave functions the transition form factor is given by the collinear result multiplied by a universal reduction factor <inline-formula id="IEq188"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">ϱ</mml:mi></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq188_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$a_0^2Q_1^2$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq194.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula></p></caption><graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Fig3_HTML.gif" id="MO61"/></fig></p></sec></sec><sec id="Sec8" sec-type="results"><title>Results</title><sec id="Sec9"><title>The real-photon limit</title><p id="Par23">The BELLE collaboration [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR1">1</xref>] extracted the <inline-formula id="IEq195"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">γ</mml:mi><mml:mo>-</mml:mo><mml:msub><mml:mi>f</mml:mi><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msub></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq195_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\gamma - f_0$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq195.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> transition form factor from the cross sections on <inline-formula id="IEq196"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:msup><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">γ</mml:mi><mml:mo>∗</mml:mo></mml:msup><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">γ</mml:mi><mml:mo stretchy="false">→</mml:mo><mml:msup><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">π</mml:mi><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msup><mml:msup><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">π</mml:mi><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msup></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq196_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\gamma ^*\gamma \rightarrow \pi ^0\pi ^0$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq196.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula>. In order to fix the normalization of that form factor the couplings of the <inline-formula id="IEq197"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:msub><mml:mi>f</mml:mi><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msub></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq197_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$f_0$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq197.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> to both the two-photon and the <inline-formula id="IEq198"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">π</mml:mi><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">π</mml:mi></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq198_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\pi \pi $$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq198.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> channels are required. These two couplings are not well known [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR10">10</xref>]. Hence, the normalization of the <inline-formula id="IEq199"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">γ</mml:mi><mml:mo>-</mml:mo><mml:msub><mml:mi>f</mml:mi><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msub></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq199_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\gamma - f_0$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq199.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> transition form factor is subject to considerable uncertainties. The published data on the transition form factor, <inline-formula id="IEq200"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:msub><mml:mi>F</mml:mi><mml:mi>T</mml:mi></mml:msub><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">(</mml:mo><mml:msubsup><mml:mi>Q</mml:mi><mml:mn>1</mml:mn><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:msubsup><mml:mo stretchy="false">)</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq200_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$F_T(Q_1^2)$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq200.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula>, are scaled by the value of the form factor at <inline-formula id="IEq201"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:msubsup><mml:mi>Q</mml:mi><mml:mn>1</mml:mn><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:msubsup><mml:mo>=</mml:mo><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq201_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$Q_1^2=0$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq201.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> obtained from the width of the two-photon decay of the <inline-formula id="IEq202"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:msub><mml:mi>f</mml:mi><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msub></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq202_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$f_0$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq202.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula>-meson (<inline-formula id="IEq203"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:msub><mml:mi>M</mml:mi><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msub><mml:mo>=</mml:mo><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">(</mml:mo><mml:mn>990</mml:mn><mml:mo>±</mml:mo><mml:mn>20</mml:mn><mml:mo stretchy="false">)</mml:mo></mml:mrow><mml:mspace width="0.166667em"/><mml:mspace width="3.33333pt"/><mml:mi mathvariant="normal">MeV</mml:mi></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq203_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$M_0=(990\pm 20)\,~\mathrm{MeV}$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq203.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR10">10</xref>])<disp-formula id="Equ57"><label>57</label><alternatives><mml:math display="block"><mml:mrow><mml:mtable columnspacing="0.5ex"><mml:mtr><mml:mtd columnalign="right"><mml:mrow><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">Γ</mml:mi><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">(</mml:mo><mml:msub><mml:mi>f</mml:mi><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msub><mml:mo stretchy="false">→</mml:mo><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">γ</mml:mi><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">γ</mml:mi><mml:mo stretchy="false">)</mml:mo></mml:mrow><mml:mo>=</mml:mo><mml:mfrac><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">π</mml:mi><mml:mn>4</mml:mn></mml:mfrac><mml:msubsup><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">α</mml:mi><mml:mrow><mml:mi mathvariant="normal">em</mml:mi></mml:mrow><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:msubsup><mml:msub><mml:mi>M</mml:mi><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msub><mml:msup><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">|</mml:mo><mml:msub><mml:mi>F</mml:mi><mml:mi>T</mml:mi></mml:msub><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">(</mml:mo><mml:mn>0</mml:mn><mml:mo stretchy="false">)</mml:mo></mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">|</mml:mo></mml:mrow><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:msup><mml:mo>.</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:mtd></mml:mtr></mml:mtable></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="Equ57_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} \varGamma (f_0\rightarrow \gamma \gamma )=\frac{\pi }{4}\alpha _\mathrm{em}^2 M_0 |F_T(0)|^2. \end{aligned}$$\end{document}</tex-math><graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_Equ57.gif" position="anchor"/></alternatives></disp-formula>From the average decay width quoted in [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR10">10</xref>], one obtains<disp-formula id="Equ58"><label>58</label><alternatives><mml:math display="block"><mml:mrow><mml:mtable columnspacing="0.5ex"><mml:mtr><mml:mtd columnalign="right"><mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">|</mml:mo></mml:mrow><mml:msub><mml:mi>F</mml:mi><mml:mi>T</mml:mi></mml:msub><mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">(</mml:mo><mml:mn>0</mml:mn><mml:mo stretchy="false">)</mml:mo></mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">|</mml:mo><mml:mo>=</mml:mo><mml:mn>0.0865</mml:mn><mml:mo>±</mml:mo><mml:mn>0.0141</mml:mn><mml:mo>.</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:mrow></mml:mtd></mml:mtr></mml:mtable></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="Equ58_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} |F_T(0)|= 0.0865 \pm 0.0141. \end{aligned}$$\end{document}</tex-math><graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_Equ58.gif" position="anchor"/></alternatives></disp-formula>The BELLE collaboration uses the slightly different value <inline-formula id="IEq204"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">|</mml:mo></mml:mrow><mml:msub><mml:mi>F</mml:mi><mml:mi>T</mml:mi></mml:msub><mml:msub><mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">(</mml:mo><mml:mn>0</mml:mn><mml:mo stretchy="false">)</mml:mo></mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">|</mml:mo></mml:mrow><mml:mi mathvariant="normal">BELLE</mml:mi></mml:msub><mml:mo>=</mml:mo><mml:mn>0.0832</mml:mn><mml:mo>±</mml:mo><mml:mn>0.0136</mml:mn></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq204_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$|F_T(0)|_\mathrm{BELLE}=0.0832 \pm 0.0136$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq204.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula>.</p><p id="Par24">In a first step the BELLE data are compared to the collinear result (<xref rid="Equ55" ref-type="disp-formula">55</xref>) for <inline-formula id="IEq205"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:msub><mml:mi>F</mml:mi><mml:mi>T</mml:mi></mml:msub></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq205_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$F_T$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq205.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula>. For the factorization scale <inline-formula id="IEq206"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:msubsup><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">μ</mml:mi><mml:mi>F</mml:mi><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:msubsup><mml:mo>=</mml:mo><mml:msubsup><mml:mi>Q</mml:mi><mml:mn>1</mml:mn><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:msubsup></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq206_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\mu ^2_F=Q_1^2$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq206.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> is used and for <inline-formula id="IEq207"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:msub><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">Λ</mml:mi><mml:mi mathvariant="normal">QCD</mml:mi></mml:msub></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq207_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\varLambda _\mathrm{QCD}$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq207.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> the value <inline-formula id="IEq208"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:mn>180</mml:mn><mml:mspace width="0.166667em"/><mml:mspace width="3.33333pt"/><mml:mi mathvariant="normal">MeV</mml:mi></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq208_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$180\,~\mathrm{MeV}$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq208.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> in combination with four flavors. Allowing only for the first Gegenbauer term in the expansion (<xref rid="Equ20" ref-type="disp-formula">20</xref>) of <inline-formula id="IEq209"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:msub><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">Φ</mml:mi><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msub></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq209_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\varPhi _0$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq209.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> and taking for the decay constant the value (<xref rid="Equ35" ref-type="disp-formula">35</xref>), we fit <inline-formula id="IEq210"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:msub><mml:mi>B</mml:mi><mml:mn>1</mml:mn></mml:msub></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq210_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$B_1$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq210.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> against the BELLE data. The fit yields <inline-formula id="IEq211"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:msubsup><mml:mi>B</mml:mi><mml:mn>1</mml:mn><mml:mi mathvariant="normal">coll</mml:mi></mml:msubsup><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">(</mml:mo><mml:msub><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">μ</mml:mi><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msub><mml:mo stretchy="false">)</mml:mo></mml:mrow><mml:mo>=</mml:mo><mml:mo>-</mml:mo><mml:mn>0.44</mml:mn><mml:mo>±</mml:mo><mml:mn>0.04</mml:mn></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq211_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$B_1^\mathrm{coll}(\mu _0)=-0.44\pm 0.04$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq211.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> and <inline-formula id="IEq212"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:msup><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">χ</mml:mi><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:msup><mml:mo>=</mml:mo><mml:mn>10.3</mml:mn></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq212_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\chi ^2=10.3$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq212.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> for 9 data points. The fitted value of <inline-formula id="IEq213"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:msub><mml:mi>B</mml:mi><mml:mn>1</mml:mn></mml:msub></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq213_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$B_1$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq213.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> is not far from the estimate quoted in (<xref rid="Equ32" ref-type="disp-formula">32</xref>). For these wave function parameters the probability of the <inline-formula id="IEq214"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:mi>s</mml:mi><mml:mover accent="true"><mml:mrow><mml:mi>s</mml:mi></mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">¯</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:mover></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq214_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$s\bar{s}$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq214.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> Fock component of the <inline-formula id="IEq215"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:msub><mml:mi>f</mml:mi><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msub></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq215_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$f_0$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq215.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula>-meson is (see (<xref rid="Equ14" ref-type="disp-formula">14</xref>)):<disp-formula id="Equ59"><label>59</label><alternatives><mml:math display="block"><mml:mrow><mml:mtable columnspacing="0.5ex"><mml:mtr><mml:mtd columnalign="right"><mml:mrow><mml:msub><mml:mi>P</mml:mi><mml:msub><mml:mi>f</mml:mi><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msub></mml:msub><mml:mo>=</mml:mo><mml:mfrac><mml:mn>12</mml:mn><mml:mn>5</mml:mn></mml:mfrac><mml:msub><mml:mi>N</mml:mi><mml:mi>c</mml:mi></mml:msub><mml:mrow><mml:mo maxsize="1.2em" minsize="1.2em" stretchy="true">[</mml:mo></mml:mrow><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">π</mml:mi><mml:msub><mml:mover accent="true"><mml:mrow><mml:mi>f</mml:mi></mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">¯</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:mover><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msub><mml:msub><mml:mi>M</mml:mi><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msub><mml:msubsup><mml:mi>a</mml:mi><mml:mn>0</mml:mn><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:msubsup><mml:msub><mml:mi>B</mml:mi><mml:mn>1</mml:mn></mml:msub><mml:msup><mml:mrow><mml:mo maxsize="1.2em" minsize="1.2em" stretchy="true">]</mml:mo></mml:mrow><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:msup><mml:mo>=</mml:mo><mml:mn>0.18</mml:mn><mml:mo>.</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:mtd></mml:mtr></mml:mtable></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="Equ59_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} P_{f_0}=\frac{12}{5}N_c\big [\pi \bar{f}_0M_0a_0^2 B_1\big ]^2=0.18. \end{aligned}$$\end{document}</tex-math><graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_Equ59.gif" position="anchor"/></alternatives></disp-formula>The results of the fit are shown in Fig. <xref rid="Fig4" ref-type="fig">4</xref>. Reasonable agreement with experiment is to be seen within rather large errors although the shape of the fit is opposite to that of the data: the collinear result for the scaled form factor, <inline-formula id="IEq216"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:msubsup><mml:mi>Q</mml:mi><mml:mn>1</mml:mn><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:msubsup><mml:msubsup><mml:mi>F</mml:mi><mml:mi>T</mml:mi><mml:mi mathvariant="normal">coll</mml:mi></mml:msubsup></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq216_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$Q_1$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq217.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> due to the evolution of the decay constant and the Gegenbauer coefficient, <inline-formula id="IEq218"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:msub><mml:mi>B</mml:mi><mml:mn>1</mml:mn></mml:msub></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq218_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\gamma - f_0$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq220.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> transition form factor scaled by <inline-formula id="IEq221"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">|</mml:mo></mml:mrow><mml:msub><mml:mi>F</mml:mi><mml:mi>T</mml:mi></mml:msub><mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">(</mml:mo><mml:mn>0</mml:mn><mml:mo stretchy="false">)</mml:mo></mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">|</mml:mo><mml:mo stretchy="false">/</mml:mo></mml:mrow><mml:msubsup><mml:mi>Q</mml:mi><mml:mn>1</mml:mn><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:msubsup></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq221_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$|F_T(0)|/Q_1^2$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq221.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> (for <inline-formula id="IEq222"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">|</mml:mo></mml:mrow><mml:msub><mml:mi>F</mml:mi><mml:mi>T</mml:mi></mml:msub><mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">(</mml:mo><mml:mn>0</mml:mn><mml:mo stretchy="false">)</mml:mo></mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">|</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq222_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$|F_T(0)|$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq222.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> the value (<xref rid="Equ58" ref-type="disp-formula">58</xref>) is taken). Data are taken from [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR1">1</xref>]; only the statistical errors are shown. The dashed and solid lines are the results of the collinear approximation and the modified perturbative approach evaluated from wave function (<xref rid="Equ31" ref-type="disp-formula">31</xref>), respectively. The shaded band represents the normalization uncertainty of the second result</p></caption><graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Fig4_HTML.gif" id="MO65"/></fig></p><p id="Par25">An increasing scaled form factor can be generated by quark transverse momenta in the hard scattering kernel and in the wave function, see Fig. <xref rid="Fig3" ref-type="fig">3</xref>. Retaining the quark transverse momenta implies that quarks and antiquarks are pulled apart in the transverse configuration or impact-parameter space. The separation of color sources is accompanied by the radiation of gluons. These radiative corrections have been calculated in Ref. [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR38">38</xref>] in the form of a Sudakov factor in the impact parameter plane. The Sudakov factor, <inline-formula id="IEq223"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:msup><mml:mi>e</mml:mi><mml:mrow><mml:mo>-</mml:mo><mml:mi>S</mml:mi></mml:mrow></mml:msup></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq223_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$e^{-S}$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq223.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula>, comprises resummed leading and next-to-leading logarithms which are not taken into account by the usual QCD evolution. The <inline-formula id="IEq224"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:msub><mml:mi>k</mml:mi><mml:mo>⊥</mml:mo></mml:msub></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq224_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$k_\perp $$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq224.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula>-factorization combined with the Sudakov factor is termed the modified perturbative approach (mpa) [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR38">38</xref>]. It has been used, for instance, in calculations of the pion electromagnetic form factor [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR38">38</xref>] or the <inline-formula id="IEq225"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">π</mml:mi></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq225_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} F_T(Q_1^2,1)= &amp; {} -\frac{e_s^2\sqrt{2N_C}}{2\pi }\,\int _{-1}^1 \mathrm{d}\xi \frac{\xi ^2}{1-\xi ^2} \int _0^{1/\varLambda _\mathrm{QCD}} \mathrm{d}b b \nonumber \\&amp;\times [k_\perp ^2\varPsi _0]\,e^{-S} K_0\Big (bQ_1/2\sqrt{1-\xi ^2}\Big ). \end{aligned}$$\end{document}</tex-math><graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_Equ60.gif" position="anchor"/></alternatives></disp-formula>The integrand is completed by the Sudakov factor, <inline-formula id="IEq227"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:mo>exp</mml:mo><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">(</mml:mo><mml:mo>-</mml:mo><mml:mi>S</mml:mi><mml:mo stretchy="false">)</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq227_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$1/\varLambda _\mathrm{QCD}$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq228.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula>. Since 1 / <italic>b</italic> in the Sudakov factor marks the interface between the non-perturbative soft momenta which are implicitly accounted for in the meson wave function, and the contributions from soft gluons, incorporated in a perturbative way in the Sudakov factor [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR33">33</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR38">38</xref>], it naturally acts as the factorization scale. The Bessel function <inline-formula id="IEq229"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:msub><mml:mi>K</mml:mi><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msub></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq229_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned}{}[k^2_\perp \varPsi _0]= &amp; {} \frac{3\pi }{4} \sqrt{2N_C}\bar{f}_0 M_0 B_1(1-\xi ^2)^2\nonumber \\&amp;\times \left( 1-\frac{1-\xi ^2}{16a_0^2}b^2\right) e^{-\frac{1-\xi ^2}{16a_0^2}b^2}. \end{aligned}$$\end{document}</tex-math><graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_Equ61.gif" position="anchor"/></alternatives></disp-formula>Evaluating the form factor within the modified perturbative approach and fitting <inline-formula id="IEq232"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:msub><mml:mi>B</mml:mi><mml:mn>1</mml:mn></mml:msub></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq232_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} \bar{f}_0(\mu _0)=(410\pm 22)\,~\mathrm{MeV}, \quad B_1(\mu _0)=-0.65\pm 0.07.\nonumber \\ \end{aligned}$$\end{document}</tex-math><graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_Equ63.gif" position="anchor"/></alternatives></disp-formula>The coefficient <inline-formula id="IEq243"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:msub><mml:mi>B</mml:mi><mml:mn>3</mml:mn></mml:msub></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq243_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} \bar{f}_\sigma ^n= &amp; {} \bar{f}_n\cos {\varphi },\quad \bar{f}_\sigma ^s=-\bar{f}_s\sin {\varphi },\nonumber \\ \bar{f}_0^n= &amp; {} \bar{f}_n\sin {\varphi },\quad \bar{f}_0^s=\phantom {-}\bar{f}_s\cos {\varphi }. \end{aligned}$$\end{document}</tex-math><graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_Equ67.gif" position="anchor"/></alternatives></disp-formula>Hence, the <inline-formula id="IEq276"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:msup><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">γ</mml:mi><mml:mo>∗</mml:mo></mml:msup></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq276_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\gamma ^* $$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq276.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula>–<inline-formula id="IEq277"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:msub><mml:mi>f</mml:mi><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msub></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq277_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$ f_0$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq277.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> transition form factors are made of two contributions,<disp-formula id="Equ68"><label>68</label><alternatives><mml:math display="block"><mml:mrow><mml:mtable columnspacing="0.5ex"><mml:mtr><mml:mtd columnalign="right"><mml:mrow><mml:msub><mml:mi>F</mml:mi><mml:mrow><mml:mi>T</mml:mi><mml:mo>,</mml:mo><mml:mi>L</mml:mi></mml:mrow></mml:msub><mml:mo>=</mml:mo><mml:msubsup><mml:mi>F</mml:mi><mml:mrow><mml:mi>T</mml:mi><mml:mo>,</mml:mo><mml:mi>L</mml:mi></mml:mrow><mml:mi>n</mml:mi></mml:msubsup><mml:mo>+</mml:mo><mml:msubsup><mml:mi>F</mml:mi><mml:mrow><mml:mi>T</mml:mi><mml:mo>,</mml:mo><mml:mi>L</mml:mi></mml:mrow><mml:mi>s</mml:mi></mml:msubsup></mml:mrow></mml:mtd></mml:mtr></mml:mtable></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="Equ68_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} F_{T,L} = F_{T,L}^n + F_{T,L}^s \end{aligned}$$\end{document}</tex-math><graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_Equ68.gif" position="anchor"/></alternatives></disp-formula>where the <italic>n</italic> and <italic>s</italic> contributions differ from (<xref rid="Equ49" ref-type="disp-formula">49</xref>) only by the decay constants, <inline-formula id="IEq278"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:msub><mml:mover accent="true"><mml:mrow><mml:mi>f</mml:mi></mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">¯</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:mover><mml:mi>n</mml:mi></mml:msub></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq278_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\bar{f}_n$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq278.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> and <inline-formula id="IEq279"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:msub><mml:mover accent="true"><mml:mrow><mml:mi>f</mml:mi></mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">¯</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:mover><mml:mi>s</mml:mi></mml:msub></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq279_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\bar{f}_s$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq279.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula>, the mixing angle, <inline-formula id="IEq280"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">φ</mml:mi></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq280_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\varphi $$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq280.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula>, and the quark charges, <inline-formula id="IEq281"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">(</mml:mo><mml:msubsup><mml:mi>e</mml:mi><mml:mi>u</mml:mi><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:msubsup><mml:mo>+</mml:mo><mml:msubsup><mml:mi>e</mml:mi><mml:mi>d</mml:mi><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:msubsup><mml:mo stretchy="false">)</mml:mo></mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">/</mml:mo><mml:msqrt><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:msqrt></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq281_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$(e_u^2+e_d^2)/\sqrt{2}$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq281.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> and <inline-formula id="IEq282"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:msubsup><mml:mi>e</mml:mi><mml:mi>s</mml:mi><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:msubsup></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq282_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$e_s^2$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq282.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula>. Thus, the contribution from the <inline-formula id="IEq283"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:mi>n</mml:mi><mml:mover accent="true"><mml:mrow><mml:mi>n</mml:mi></mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">¯</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:mover></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq283_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$n\bar{n}$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq283.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> Fock state is taken into account if in (<xref rid="Equ49" ref-type="disp-formula">49</xref>), and in other expressions derived for the form factors, the decay constant, <inline-formula id="IEq284"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:msub><mml:mover accent="true"><mml:mrow><mml:mi>f</mml:mi></mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">¯</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:mover><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msub></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq284_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\bar{f}_0$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq284.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula>, is to be replaced by an effective one defined by<disp-formula id="Equ69"><label>69</label><alternatives><mml:math display="block"><mml:mrow><mml:mtable columnspacing="0.5ex"><mml:mtr><mml:mtd columnalign="right"><mml:mrow><mml:msubsup><mml:mrow><mml:mover accent="true"><mml:mrow><mml:mi>f</mml:mi></mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">¯</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:mover></mml:mrow><mml:mn>0</mml:mn><mml:mi mathvariant="normal">eff</mml:mi></mml:msubsup><mml:mo>=</mml:mo><mml:msub><mml:mover accent="true"><mml:mrow><mml:mi>f</mml:mi></mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">¯</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:mover><mml:mi>n</mml:mi></mml:msub><mml:mo>sin</mml:mo><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">φ</mml:mi><mml:mfrac><mml:mn>1</mml:mn><mml:msqrt><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:msqrt></mml:mfrac><mml:mfrac><mml:mrow><mml:msubsup><mml:mi>e</mml:mi><mml:mi>u</mml:mi><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:msubsup><mml:mo>+</mml:mo><mml:msubsup><mml:mi>e</mml:mi><mml:mi>d</mml:mi><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:msubsup></mml:mrow><mml:msubsup><mml:mi>e</mml:mi><mml:mi>s</mml:mi><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:msubsup></mml:mfrac><mml:mo>+</mml:mo><mml:msub><mml:mover accent="true"><mml:mrow><mml:mi>f</mml:mi></mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">¯</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:mover><mml:mi>s</mml:mi></mml:msub><mml:mo>cos</mml:mo><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">φ</mml:mi><mml:mo>.</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:mtd></mml:mtr></mml:mtable></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="Equ69_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} \bar{f}^\mathrm{eff}_0=\bar{f}_n\sin {\varphi }\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}\frac{e_u^2+e_d^2}{e_s^2} + \bar{f}_s\cos {\varphi }. \end{aligned}$$\end{document}</tex-math><graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_Equ69.gif" position="anchor"/></alternatives></disp-formula>According to [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR12">12</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR41">41</xref>] <inline-formula id="IEq285"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:msub><mml:mover accent="true"><mml:mrow><mml:mi>f</mml:mi></mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">¯</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:mover><mml:mi>n</mml:mi></mml:msub><mml:mo>≃</mml:mo><mml:msub><mml:mover accent="true"><mml:mrow><mml:mi>f</mml:mi></mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">¯</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:mover><mml:mi>s</mml:mi></mml:msub></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq285_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\bar{f}_n\simeq \bar{f}_s$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq285.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula>. Since the decay constant quoted in (<xref rid="Equ35" ref-type="disp-formula">35</xref>) is to be identified with <inline-formula id="IEq286"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:msubsup><mml:mover accent="true"><mml:mrow><mml:mi>f</mml:mi></mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">¯</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:mover><mml:mn>0</mml:mn><mml:mi>s</mml:mi></mml:msubsup></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq286_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\bar{f}_0^s$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq286.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> and since <inline-formula id="IEq287"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">|</mml:mo><mml:mo>cos</mml:mo><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">φ</mml:mi><mml:mo stretchy="false">|</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq287_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\bar{f}_n\simeq \bar{f}_s\simeq \bar{f}_0$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq288.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> for a rough estimate. For the range <inline-formula id="IEq289"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">φ</mml:mi><mml:mo>=</mml:mo><mml:mo stretchy="false">(</mml:mo><mml:mn>25</mml:mn></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq289_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$40)^\circ $$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq290.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> of the mixing angle quoted in (<xref rid="Equ1" ref-type="disp-formula">1</xref>) one finds<disp-formula id="Equ70"><label>70</label><alternatives><mml:math display="block"><mml:mrow><mml:mtable columnspacing="0.5ex"><mml:mtr><mml:mtd columnalign="right"><mml:mrow><mml:msubsup><mml:mrow><mml:mover accent="true"><mml:mrow><mml:mi>f</mml:mi></mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">¯</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:mover></mml:mrow><mml:mn>0</mml:mn><mml:mi mathvariant="normal">eff</mml:mi></mml:msubsup><mml:mo stretchy="false">/</mml:mo><mml:msub><mml:mover accent="true"><mml:mrow><mml:mi>f</mml:mi></mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">¯</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:mover><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msub><mml:mo>=</mml:mo><mml:mn>2.4</mml:mn><mml:mo>-</mml:mo><mml:mn>3.0</mml:mn><mml:mo>.</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:mtd></mml:mtr></mml:mtable></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="Equ70_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$ 151)^\circ $$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq292.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> for which the form factor stays within the uncertainty band displayed in Fig. <xref rid="Fig4" ref-type="fig">4</xref>. An exact determination of the mixing angle is not possible at present given the poor information available for the basic decay constants, <inline-formula id="IEq293"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:msub><mml:mover accent="true"><mml:mrow><mml:mi>f</mml:mi></mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">¯</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:mover><mml:mi>n</mml:mi></mml:msub><mml:mo>,</mml:mo><mml:msub><mml:mover accent="true"><mml:mrow><mml:mi>f</mml:mi></mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">¯</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:mover><mml:mi>s</mml:mi></mml:msub></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq293_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\bar{f}_n, \bar{f}_s$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq293.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula>, and the assumption on the explicit form of the light-cone wave function.</p></sec><sec id="Sec10"><title>The case of two virtual photons</title><p id="Par31"><fig id="Fig5"><label>Fig. 5</label><caption><p>The ratio of the transition form factors evaluated from (<xref rid="Equ49" ref-type="disp-formula">49</xref>) and from the collinear result (<xref rid="Equ71" ref-type="disp-formula">71</xref>) versus <inline-formula id="IEq294"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">ω</mml:mi></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq294_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\overline{Q}^2$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq295.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> values. The form factors are evaluated from the wave function (<xref rid="Equ31" ref-type="disp-formula">31</xref>) and the associated distribution amplitude (<xref rid="Equ33" ref-type="disp-formula">33</xref>), respectively</p></caption><graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Fig5_HTML.gif" id="MO77"/></fig></p><p id="Par32">Here, in this subsection, we will comment on the <inline-formula id="IEq296"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:msup><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">γ</mml:mi><mml:mo>∗</mml:mo></mml:msup></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq296_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} F_T^\mathrm{coll}(\overline{Q}^2,\omega )= &amp; {} -\frac{2}{5}N_c e_s^2 \frac{\bar{f}_0 M_0}{\overline{Q}^2} \frac{\omega ^2 + \frac{1}{2}\frac{M_0^2}{\overline{Q}^2}}{1+\frac{1}{2}\frac{M_0^2}{\overline{Q}^2}}\nonumber \\&amp;\times \left[ B_1 + \omega ^2\frac{3}{7}\left( B_1+\frac{20}{27} B_3\right) \right. \nonumber \\&amp;+\left. \, \omega ^4\frac{5}{21} \left( B_1 + \frac{40}{33} B_3 + \frac{56}{143} B_5\right) +\cdots \right] .\nonumber \\ \end{aligned}$$\end{document}</tex-math><graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_Equ72.gif" position="anchor"/></alternatives></disp-formula>As one notices the <italic>m</italic>th Gegenbauer coefficient comes with the power <inline-formula id="IEq308"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:msup><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">ω</mml:mi><mml:mrow><mml:mi>m</mml:mi><mml:mo>-</mml:mo><mml:mn>1</mml:mn></mml:mrow></mml:msup></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq308_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\omega ^{m-1}$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq308.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> first. For <inline-formula id="IEq309"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:msup><mml:mover><mml:mi>Q</mml:mi><mml:mo>¯</mml:mo></mml:mover><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:msup></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq309_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\overline{Q}^2$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq309.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> larger than <inline-formula id="IEq310"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:mn>4</mml:mn><mml:mspace width="3.33333pt"/><mml:msup><mml:mrow><mml:mi mathvariant="normal">GeV</mml:mi></mml:mrow><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:msup></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq310_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$4~\mathrm{GeV}^2$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq310.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> the difference between the modified perturbative approach and the collinear result is smaller than <inline-formula id="IEq311"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:mn>10</mml:mn><mml:mo>%</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq311_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$10\%$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq311.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula>. Hence, the result in the modified perturbative approach, evaluated from the wave function (<xref rid="Equ26" ref-type="disp-formula">26</xref>), is not far from the collinear result (<xref rid="Equ72" ref-type="disp-formula">72</xref>). Thus, as is the case for the <inline-formula id="IEq312"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:msup><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">γ</mml:mi><mml:mo>∗</mml:mo></mml:msup></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq312_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$ \pi $$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq313.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> transition form factor [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR37">37</xref>], a measurement of the <inline-formula id="IEq314"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:msup><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">γ</mml:mi><mml:mo>∗</mml:mo></mml:msup></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq314_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$|F_T(0)|/\overline{Q}^2$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq320.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula>, evaluated from the wave function (<xref rid="Equ31" ref-type="disp-formula">31</xref>) (with <inline-formula id="IEq321"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:msub><mml:mi>B</mml:mi><mml:mn>1</mml:mn></mml:msub><mml:mo>=</mml:mo><mml:mo>-</mml:mo><mml:mn>0.57</mml:mn></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq321_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\omega $$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq326.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula>. It is clearly seen that the form factor drops with <inline-formula id="IEq327"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:msup><mml:mover><mml:mi>Q</mml:mi><mml:mo>¯</mml:mo></mml:mover><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:msup></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq327_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$1/\overline{Q}^4$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq331.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> (aside from evolution logarithms).</p></sec></sec><sec id="Sec11"><title>Summary</title><p id="Par35">In this article the spin wave function of the <inline-formula id="IEq332"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:msub><mml:mi>f</mml:mi><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msub><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">(</mml:mo><mml:mn>980</mml:mn><mml:mo stretchy="false">)</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq332_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$f_0(980)$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq332.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> meson is constructed under the assumption that the meson is dominantly a strange–antistrange quark state. The collinear limit of the spin wave function is also discussed and the connection to the twist-2 and twist-3 distribution amplitudes is made. The spin wave function is applied in a calculation of the <inline-formula id="IEq333"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:msup><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">γ</mml:mi><mml:mo>∗</mml:mo></mml:msup></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq333_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$ f_0$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq334.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> transition form factors. In the real-photon limit the results for the transverse form factor are compared to the large momentum-transfer data measured by the BELLE collaboration recently. It turns out that, for the momentum-transfer range explored by BELLE, the collinear approximation does not suffice, power corrections to it, modeled as quark transverse moment effects, seem to be needed. The parameters required in this calculation in order to achieve agreement with BELLE form factor data, the transverse-size parameter, <inline-formula id="IEq335"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:msub><mml:mi>a</mml:mi><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msub></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq335_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$B_1$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq337.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula>, have plausible values. However, Cheng et al. [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR12">12</xref>] in their analysis of charmless <italic>B</italic>-meson decays, adopt a much larger value for <inline-formula id="IEq338"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:msub><mml:mover accent="true"><mml:mrow><mml:mi>f</mml:mi></mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">¯</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:mover><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msub></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq338_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$ f_0$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq340.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> mixing for the transition form factors are also briefly discussed. A mixing angle of about <inline-formula id="IEq341"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:msup><mml:mn>150</mml:mn><mml:mo>∘</mml:mo></mml:msup></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq341_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$ f_0$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq343.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> form factors and on their collinear limits. It turns out that, in many aspects, the photon <inline-formula id="IEq344"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:msub><mml:mi>f</mml:mi><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msub></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq344_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$f_0$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq344.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> form factors have properties similar to the form factors for the transition from a photon to the <inline-formula id="IEq345"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:msup><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">π</mml:mi><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msup></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq345_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$ f_0$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq353.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> transition form factors also play a role in the calculation of the hadronic light-by-light contribution to the muon anomalous magnetic moment [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR42">42</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR45">45</xref>]. In particular, the results presented in this article clarify the asymptotic behavior of the <inline-formula id="IEq354"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:msup><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">γ</mml:mi><mml:mo>∗</mml:mo></mml:msup></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq354_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$^3P_0$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq79.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> state.</p></fn><fn id="Fn3"><label>3</label><p id="Par11">As discussed in [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR23">23</xref>] each unit of orbital angular momentum will be represented by<disp-formula id="Equ73"><alternatives><mml:math display="block"><mml:mrow><mml:mtable columnspacing="0.5ex"><mml:mtr><mml:mtd columnalign="right"><mml:mrow><mml:msubsup><mml:mi>K</mml:mi><mml:mo>⊥</mml:mo><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">μ</mml:mi></mml:msubsup><mml:mo>=</mml:mo><mml:msup><mml:mi>K</mml:mi><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">μ</mml:mi></mml:msup><mml:mo>-</mml:mo><mml:mover accent="true"><mml:mi>v</mml:mi><mml:mo stretchy="false">^</mml:mo></mml:mover><mml:mo>·</mml:mo><mml:mi>K</mml:mi><mml:mspace width="0.166667em"/><mml:msup><mml:mover accent="true"><mml:mi>v</mml:mi><mml:mo stretchy="false">^</mml:mo></mml:mover><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">μ</mml:mi></mml:msup></mml:mrow></mml:mtd></mml:mtr></mml:mtable></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="Equ73_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} K_\perp ^\mu = K^\mu - \hat{v}\cdot K \,\hat{v}^\mu \end{aligned}$$\end{document}</tex-math><graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_Equ73.gif" position="anchor"/></alternatives></disp-formula>where <inline-formula id="IEq85"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:msup><mml:mover accent="true"><mml:mi>v</mml:mi><mml:mo stretchy="false">^</mml:mo></mml:mover><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">μ</mml:mi></mml:msup><mml:mo>=</mml:mo><mml:msup><mml:mover accent="true"><mml:mi>p</mml:mi><mml:mo stretchy="false">^</mml:mo></mml:mover><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">μ</mml:mi></mml:msup><mml:mo stretchy="false">/</mml:mo><mml:msub><mml:mi>M</mml:mi><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msub><mml:mo>=</mml:mo><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">(</mml:mo><mml:mn>1</mml:mn><mml:mo>,</mml:mo><mml:mn mathvariant="bold">0</mml:mn><mml:mo stretchy="false">)</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq85_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\hat{v}^\mu =\hat{p}^\mu /M_0=(1,\mathbf{0})$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq85.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> is the velocity 4-vector. In the rest frame clearly <inline-formula id="IEq86"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:msub><mml:mi>K</mml:mi><mml:mo>⊥</mml:mo></mml:msub><mml:mo stretchy="false">→</mml:mo><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">(</mml:mo><mml:mn>0</mml:mn><mml:mo>,</mml:mo><mml:mi mathvariant="bold">k</mml:mi><mml:mo stretchy="false">)</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq86_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$K_\perp \rightarrow (0,\mathbf{k})$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq86.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> and one has the appropriate object transforming as a 3-vector under <italic>O</italic>(3). Thus, <inline-formula id="IEq87"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:msup><mml:mi>K</mml:mi><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">μ</mml:mi></mml:msup></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq87_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$K^\mu $$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq87.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> introduced in the line after (<xref rid="Equ6" ref-type="disp-formula">6</xref>), is strictly speaking <inline-formula id="IEq88"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:msubsup><mml:mi>K</mml:mi><mml:mo>⊥</mml:mo><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">μ</mml:mi></mml:msubsup></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq88_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$K_\perp ^\mu $$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq88.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula>.</p></fn><fn id="Fn4"><label>4</label><p id="Par13">In [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR27">27</xref>] the parton momenta are parametrized as<disp-formula id="Equ74"><alternatives><mml:math display="block"><mml:mrow><mml:mtable columnspacing="0.5ex"><mml:mtr><mml:mtd columnalign="right"><mml:mrow><mml:msub><mml:mi>p</mml:mi><mml:mn>1</mml:mn></mml:msub><mml:mo>=</mml:mo><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">τ</mml:mi><mml:mi>p</mml:mi><mml:mo>+</mml:mo><mml:mi>K</mml:mi><mml:mo>+</mml:mo><mml:mfrac><mml:msubsup><mml:mi>k</mml:mi><mml:mo>⊥</mml:mo><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:msubsup><mml:mrow><mml:mn>2</mml:mn><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">τ</mml:mi><mml:mi>p</mml:mi><mml:mo>·</mml:mo><mml:mover accent="true"><mml:mrow><mml:mi>p</mml:mi></mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">¯</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:mover></mml:mrow></mml:mfrac><mml:mover accent="true"><mml:mrow><mml:mi>p</mml:mi></mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">¯</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:mover><mml:mo>,</mml:mo><mml:mspace width="1em"/><mml:msub><mml:mi>p</mml:mi><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:msub><mml:mo>=</mml:mo><mml:mover accent="true"><mml:mrow><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">τ</mml:mi></mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">¯</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:mover><mml:mi>p</mml:mi><mml:mo>-</mml:mo><mml:mi>K</mml:mi><mml:mo>+</mml:mo><mml:mfrac><mml:msubsup><mml:mi>k</mml:mi><mml:mo>⊥</mml:mo><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:msubsup><mml:mrow><mml:mn>2</mml:mn><mml:mover accent="true"><mml:mrow><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">τ</mml:mi></mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">¯</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:mover><mml:mi>p</mml:mi><mml:mo>·</mml:mo><mml:mover accent="true"><mml:mrow><mml:mi>p</mml:mi></mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">¯</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:mover></mml:mrow></mml:mfrac><mml:mover accent="true"><mml:mrow><mml:mi>p</mml:mi></mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">¯</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:mover></mml:mrow></mml:mtd></mml:mtr></mml:mtable></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="Equ74_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} p_1=\tau p + K + \frac{k^2_\perp }{2\tau p\cdot \bar{p}} \bar{p}, \quad p_2=\bar{\tau } p - K + \frac{k^2_\perp }{2\bar{\tau }p\cdot \bar{p}} \bar{p} \end{aligned}$$\end{document}</tex-math><graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_Equ74.gif" position="anchor"/></alternatives></disp-formula>where <inline-formula id="IEq95"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mover accent="true"><mml:mrow><mml:mi>p</mml:mi></mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">¯</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:mover></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq95_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\bar{p}$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq95.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> is a light-like vector whose 3-component points in the opposite direction of <inline-formula id="IEq96"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mi mathvariant="bold">p</mml:mi></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq96_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\mathbf{p}$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq96.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula>. For this parametrization momentum conservation only holds up to corrections of order <inline-formula id="IEq97"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:msubsup><mml:mi>k</mml:mi><mml:mo>⊥</mml:mo><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:msubsup><mml:mo stretchy="false">/</mml:mo><mml:mi>p</mml:mi></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq97_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$k^2_\perp /p$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq97.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula>. It, however, also leads to the spin wave function (<xref rid="Equ11" ref-type="disp-formula">11</xref>) up to corrections of order <inline-formula id="IEq98"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:msubsup><mml:mi>k</mml:mi><mml:mo>⊥</mml:mo><mml:mn>3</mml:mn></mml:msubsup><mml:mo stretchy="false">/</mml:mo><mml:msub><mml:mi>M</mml:mi><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msub></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq98_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$k^3_\perp /M_0$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq98.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula>.</p></fn><fn id="Fn5"><label>5</label><p id="Par15">For <inline-formula id="IEq111"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:mi>l</mml:mi><mml:mo>=</mml:mo><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq111_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$l=0$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq111.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> hadrons these terms are suppressed by <inline-formula id="IEq112"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:msubsup><mml:mi>k</mml:mi><mml:mo>⊥</mml:mo><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:msubsup></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq112_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$k_\perp ^2$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq112.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula>; the leading term is <inline-formula id="IEq113"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:msub><mml:mi>k</mml:mi><mml:mo>⊥</mml:mo></mml:msub></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq113_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$k_\perp $$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq113.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula>-independent.</p></fn><fn id="Fn6"><label>6</label><p id="Par26">As shown for the case of the <inline-formula id="IEq233"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">γ</mml:mi></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq233_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\gamma $$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq233.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula>–<inline-formula id="IEq234"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">π</mml:mi></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq234_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$ \pi $$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq234.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> form factor in [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR33">33</xref>] the contributions from the higher Gegenbauer terms are suppressed as compared to the lowest one. This property of the modified perturbative approach comes into effect here, too.</p></fn><fn id="Fn7"><label>7</label><p id="Par27">In the analysis of the <inline-formula id="IEq240"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">γ</mml:mi><mml:mo>-</mml:mo><mml:msub><mml:mi>f</mml:mi><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:msub></mml:mrow></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq240_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\gamma - f_2$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq240.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> form factor performed in [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR6">6</xref>] the collinear factorization framework does also not suffice. In order to achieve fair agreement with experiment [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR1">1</xref>] soft end-point corrections have to be included in the analysis.</p></fn><fn id="Fn8"><label>8</label><p id="Par30">I.e. with the exception of the decay constants, the wave functions of the basis states, <inline-formula id="IEq269"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:msub><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">σ</mml:mi><mml:mi>n</mml:mi></mml:msub></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq269_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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				\begin{document}$$\sigma _n$$\end{document}</tex-math><inline-graphic xlink:href="10052_2017_4661_Article_IEq269.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> and <inline-formula id="IEq270"><alternatives><mml:math><mml:msub><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">σ</mml:mi><mml:mi>s</mml:mi></mml:msub></mml:math><tex-math id="IEq270_TeX">\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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