We study the form factors of the ηc meson in the light-front quark model. We explicitly show that the transition form factor of ηc→γ∗γ as a function of the momentum transfer is consistent with the experimental data by the BaBar collaboration, while the decay constant of ηc is found to be fηc=230.5−61.0+52.2 and 303.6−116.4+115.2 MeV for ηc∼ccˉ by using two ηc→γγ decay widths of 5.3±0.5 and 7.2±2.1 keV, given by Particle Data Group and Lattice QCD calculation, respectively.
@article{arxiv.1307.3852,
title = {Form factors of $\eta_c$ in light front quark model},
author = {Chao-Qiang Geng and Chong-Chung Lih},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1307.3852},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
9 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in EPJC