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New Spectroscopy of Heavy Mesons

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2012-08-22 v1

Abstract

I discuss the most recently discovered open charm mesons, both with and without strangeness. By exploiting the heavy quark limit, strong decay widths of such mesons are computed. Comparison between theoretical predictions and experimental measurements are useful to assign the right quantum numbers to such states. As for hidden charm mesons, I consider the case of X(3872). Analysis of its radiative decays to J/ψγJ/\psi \gamma and ψ(2S)γ\psi(2S) \gamma shows the plausibility of the identification with χc1(2P)\chi_{c1}(2P).

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@article{arxiv.1208.4206,
  title  = {New Spectroscopy of Heavy Mesons},
  author = {Fulvia De Fazio},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1208.4206},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

LaTex, 10 pages. Invited talk at Heavy Quarks and Leptons 2012, June 11-15 2012, Prague