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Decay channels and charmonium mass-shifts

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v2

Abstract

The discovery in the last few years of the X,YX, Y and ZZ states of the extended charmonium family has highlighted the importance of the closeness of decay channels to an understanding of these mesons. We aid this debate by illustrating a simple calculational procedure for including the effect of open and nearby closed channels.

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@article{arxiv.0704.3384,
  title  = {Decay channels and charmonium mass-shifts},
  author = {M. R. Pennington and D. J. Wilson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0704.3384},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

4 pages, 2 figures Revised version: (1) corrected 2 typos in Table II, (2) additional text in penultimate paragraph to clarify the calculation of mass-shifts for $\eta_c'$ and $\eta_c"$. We thank colleagues for pointing out confusing wording of previous text