Amplitude Zeros in Radiative Decays of Scalar Particles
Abstract
We study amplitude zeros in radiative decay processes with a photon or a gluon emission of all possible scalar particles(e.g. scalar leptoquarks) which may interact with the usual fermions in models beyond the standard model. For the decays with a photon emission, the amplitudes clearly exhibit the factorization property and the differential decay rates vanish at specific values of a certain variable which are determined only by the electric charges of the particles involved and independent of the particle masses and the various couplings. For the decays with a gluon emission, even though the zeros are washed away, the differential decay rates still have distinct minima. The branching ratios as a function of leptoquark masses are presented for the scalar leptoquark decays. We also comment on the decays of vector particles into two fermions and a photon.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9410373,
title = {Amplitude Zeros in Radiative Decays of Scalar Particles},
author = {Deshpande and He and Oh},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9410373},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
Revtex, 17 pages + 6 figures (available upon request), Preprint, OITS559. Several typos with tex file were corrected