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Light axial vector mesons

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-04-23 v3 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

Inspired by the abundant experimental observation of axial-vector states, we study whether the observed axial-vector states can be categorized into the conventional axial-vector meson family. In this paper we carry out an analysis based on the mass spectra and two-body Okubo-Zweig-Iizuka-allowed decays. Besides testing the possible axial-vector meson assignments, we also predict abundant information for their decays and the properties of some missing axial-vector mesons, which are valuable for further experimental exploration of the observed and predicted axial-vector mesons.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1501.07766,
  title  = {Light axial vector mesons},
  author = {Kan Chen and Cheng-Qun Pang and Xiang Liu and Takayuki Matsuki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1501.07766},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

18 pages, 11 tables and 25 figures. More discussion added and typos corrected. Accepted by Phys. Rev. D

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