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Vector Meson Dominance Model for Radiative Decays Involving Light Scalar Mesons

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v2

Abstract

We study a vector dominance model which predicts a fairly large number of currently interesting decay amplitudes of the types S -> \gamma \gamma, V -> S \gamma and S -> V \gamma, where S and V denote scalar and vector mesons, in terms of three parameters. As an application, the model makes it easy to study in detail a recent proposal to boost the ratio Gamma(phi -> f_0 gamma) / Gamma(phi -> a_0 gamma) by including the isospin violating a_0 - f_0 mixing. However we find that this effect is actually small in our model.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0202069,
  title  = {Vector Meson Dominance Model for Radiative Decays Involving Light Scalar Mesons},
  author = {Deirdre Black and Masayasu Harada and Joseph Schechter},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0202069},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

4 pages, 1 figure, REVTeX. Table I and paragraph on application of model to study effect of a_0 - f_0 mixing revised