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Why the OZI rule is so strongly violated in J/Psi decays?

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v3 High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Lattice Nuclear Experiment Nuclear Theory

Abstract

The new f0(1790)f_0(1790) meson recently observed by BES collaboration in J/ΨJ/\Psi-decay, is seen only in the OZI-forbidden channel. It is shown that chiral symmetry restoration in excited hadrons implies a new selection rule of dynamical origin that forbids some of the OZI-favoured mechanisms of decays. Hence decays into channels that are suppressed by OZI can become dominant.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0507206,
  title  = {Why the OZI rule is so strongly violated in J/Psi decays?},
  author = {L. Ya. Glozman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0507206},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

5 pages, 5 figures. The paper has been expanded. A new figure as well as implications of chiral symmetry for the search of missing a_0 mesons in charmonium decays have been added. To appear in Phys. Rev. D