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$B$ and $B_s$ Meson Spectroscopy

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-09-28 v3 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

Properties of bottom and bottom-strange mesons are computed in two relativized quark models. Model masses and wavefunctions are used to predict radiative transition rates and the 3P0^3P_0 quark pair creation model is used to compute strong decay widths. A comparison to recently observed bottom and bottom-strange states is made. We find that there are numerous excited BB and BsB_s mesons that have relatively narrow widths and significant branching ratios to simple final states such as BπB\pi, BπB^*\pi, BKBK, and BKB^*K that could be observed in the near future.

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@article{arxiv.1607.02169,
  title  = {$B$ and $B_s$ Meson Spectroscopy},
  author = {Stephen Godfrey and Kenneth Moats and Eric S. Swanson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.02169},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

44 pages, 36 tables, 7 figures, supplementary tables available with further decays. V2: corrected minor typos. V3: added discussion of other related work and additional references. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1510.08305

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