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Two-Photon, Two-gluon and Radiative Decays of Heavy Flavoured Mesons

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2011-02-18 v2

Abstract

Here we present the two-photon and two-gluon decay widths of the S-wave (ηQc,b\eta_{Q\in c,b}) and P-wave (χQc,bJ\chi_{Q\in c,bJ}) charmonium and bottonium states and the radiative transition decay widths of ccˉc\bar c, bbˉb\bar b and cbˉc\bar b systems based on Coulomb plus power form of the inter-quark potential (CPPνCPP_\nu) with exponent ν\nu. The Schro¨\ddot{o}dinger equation is solved numerically for different choices of the exponent ν\nu. We employ the masses of different states and their radial wave functions obtained from the study to compute the two-photon and two-gluon decay widths and the E1 and M1 radiative transitions. It is found that the quarkonia mass spectra and the E1 transition can be described by the same interquark model potential of the CPPνCPP_\nu with ν=1.0\nu=1.0 for ccˉc\bar c and ν=0.7\nu=0.7 for bbˉb\bar b systems, while the M1 transition (at which the spin of the system changes) and the decay rates in the annihilation channel of quarkonia are better estimated by a shallow potential with ν<1.0\nu<1.0.

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@article{arxiv.1001.0848,
  title  = {Two-Photon, Two-gluon and Radiative Decays of Heavy Flavoured Mesons},
  author = {Arpit Parmar and Bhavin Patel and P C Vinodkumar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1001.0848},
  year   = {2011}
}

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27 Pages, 8 figures