New Progress in Time-Like Exclusive Processes

Abstract

We discuss a necessary nonvalence contribution in timelike exclusive processes. Following a Schwinger-Dyson type of approach, we relate the nonvalence contribution to an ordinary light-front wave function that has been extensively tested in the spacelike exclusive processes. A complicate multi-body energy denominator is exactly cancelled in summing the light-front time-ordered amplitudes. Applying our method to $K_{\ell3}$ and $D^0\to K^- \ell^+ ν_l$ where a rather substantial nonvalence contribution is expected, we find not only an improvement in comparing with the experimental data but also a covariance(i.e. frame-indepndence) of existing light-front constituent quark model.

Invited talk(ID No. T23) given at ``e^+e^- Physics at Intermediate Energies Workshop", Stanford, CA, April 30-May 2, 2001; 6 pages including 5 figures; typo corrected in Eq. (14)