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Charmonium decay widths in magnetized matter

Nuclear Theory 2022-10-12 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We study the partial decay widths of the charmonium states (J/ψJ/\psi, ψ(3686)\psi(3686), ψ(3770)\psi(3770), χc0\chi_{c0}, χc2\chi_{c2}) to DDˉD\bar D (D+DD^+D^- or D0D0ˉD^0\bar {D^0}) in isospin asymmetric nuclear matter, in the presence of strong magnetic fields. The in-medium partial decay widths of charmonium states to DDˉD\bar D are calculated within a light quark--antiquark pair creation model, namely the 3P0^3P_0 model, using the in--medium masses of the charmonia as well as DD and Dˉ\bar D mesons in the magnetized nuclear matter obtained within a chiral effective model. The presence of a magnetic field leads to Landau quantization of the energy levels of the proton in the nuclear medium. The effects of magnetic field and isospin asymmetry on the charmonium decay widths to DDˉD\bar D are found to be quite prominent. The effects of the anomalous magnetic moments have also been taken into consideration for obtaining the in-medium masses of these heavy flavour mesons, used to calculate the partial decay widths of the charmonium states. The medium modifications of the charmonium decay widths can have observable consequences on the production of the charmed mesons in high energy asymmetric heavy ion collision experiments.

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@article{arxiv.1812.07397,
  title  = {Charmonium decay widths in magnetized matter},
  author = {Amruta Mishra and Amal Jahan CS and Shivam Kesarwani and Haresh Raval and Shashank Kumar and Jitendra Meena},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.07397},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

29 pages, 8 figures, to be published in Eur. Phys. Jour. A. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1803.04322, arXiv:1901.06259, arXiv:1807.07572, arXiv:1811.04622, arXiv:1801.06405

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