New effective treatment of the light-front nonvalence contribution in timelike exclusive processes

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 four-body energy denominator is exactly cancelled in summing the light-front time-ordered amplitudes. Applying our method to K-l3 and D-0 --> K(-)l(+)nu (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-independence) of existing light-front constituent quark model. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.