Two-loop contribution to the pion transition form factor vs. experimental data

We present predictions for the pion-photon transition form factor, derived with the help of light-cone sum rules and including the main part of the NNLO radiative corrections. We show that, when the Bakulev-Mikhailov-Stefanis (BMS) pion distribution amplitude is used, the obtained predictions agree well with the CELLO and the CLEO data. We found that no model distribution amplitude can reproduce the observed $Q^2$ growth of the new BaBar data, though the BMS model complies with several BaBar data points.
Comment: 5 pages, 2 figures, 3 tables. Presented by the first author at 3rd joint International HADRON STRUCTURE'09 Conference at Tatranska Strba, Slovakia, August 30th - September 3rd, 2009. v2 Eqs. (9), (10) corrected; wrong reference tag removed. v3 Fig. 2 and Ref. [13] corrected