Related papers: Hyperon Radiative Decays in the 1/N_c Expansion
Two different approaches have been employed for the evaluation of the decay widths of Lambda-hypernuclei (ranging from $^5_{\Lambda}$He to $^{208}_{\Lambda}$Pb) with the polarization propagator method. In ref.[1], the two-nucleon stimulated…
Radiative decays X --> psi(1S) + gamma and X --> psi(2S) + gamma might be expected to have a ratio of branching fractions following the phase space volumes ratio. However data suggest the opposite, indicating a value for R=B(X --> psi^prime…
The spin-$\nicefrac{3}{2}$ to spin-$\nicefrac{1}{2}$ doubly heavy baryon transition magnetic dipole $G_M$ and electric quadrupole $G_E$ formfactors are calculated in the framework of light cone sum rules method. Moreover, the decay widths…
In the framework of an extended bag model the magnetic moments, M1 transition moments, and decay widths of all ground-state heavy hadrons are calculated. For the heavy baryons containing three quarks of different flavors the effect of…
We calculate the decay width of the $\Lambda_{c}^{+}\to\Sigma^{+}\gamma$ using light-cone sum rules. For the initial quark radiation an effective Hamiltonian is constructed, where the internal quark line shrinks to a point. The final quark…
The semileptonic weak decay process of the $\Lambda_c$ baryon to the neutron $\Lambda_c\rightarrow ne^+\nu_e$ is examined. The transition form factors are investigated with light-cone QCD sum rules. The differential decay width is obtained…
Using data obtained with the CLEO~III detector, running at the Cornell Electron Storage Ring (CESR), we report on a new study of exclusive radiative Upsilon(1S) decays into the final states gamma pi^+ pi^-, gamma K^+ K^-, and gamma p pbar..…
The radiative decays $V\to S\gamma$ and $S\to V\gamma$ with $V=\rho, \omega, \phi$ and $S=a_0, \sigma, f_0$ are calculated within the framework of the Linear Sigma Model. Current experimental data on the $\phi\to f_0\gamma$ and…
In this study, we have investigated the radiative and semileptonic decay of doubly heavy baryons. Our focus is to determine the static and dynamic properties such as ground state masses, magnetic moment, transition magnetic moment,…
Properties of single beauty baryons ($\Sigma_{b},\Lambda_{b}$) are studied based on the quark-diquark structure. The confinement potential is assumed as two body colour coulomb plus power potential with exponent $\nu$. We find a strong…
In this article, we assume that the $(0^+,1^+)$ strange-bottom mesons are the conventional $b\bar{s}$ mesons, and calculate the electromagnetic coupling constants $d$, $g_1$, $g_2$ and $g_3$ using the light-cone QCD sum rules. Then we study…
We present a theoretical investigation of the radiative decay process $\Omega(2012) \to \gamma \Omega$, where the $\Omega(2012)$ resonance with spin-parity $J^P=\frac{3}{2}^-$, is treated as a dynamically generated state from…
The importance of resonances for the radiative hyperon decays is examined in the framework of chiral perturbation theory. Low lying baryon resonances are included into the effective theory and tree contributions to these decays are…
Inclusive radiative decays $B_c\to\gamma u\bar{d}$ are considered. It is shown that photon emission allows one to bypass the chiral suppression and leads the increase of the branching fraction by about four orders of magnitude. The…
We study strong decays of nonstrange baryons by making use of the algebraic approach to hadron structure. Within this framework we derive closed expressions for decay widths in an elementary-meson emission model and use these to analyze the…
In the extended NJL model the radiative decay widths of the radially excited states of the pseudoscalar $\pi$, $\eta$, and $\eta'$ mesons are calculated. The predictions for the decay widths of the processes…
The radiative decays of hyperons are studied in the framework of the bound state soliton model. Detailed predictions for the total decay widths and the E2/M1 ratios corresponding to decuplet--to--octet electromagnetic transitions are…
Last year, the $\Xi(1620)$ state that is cataloged in the Particle Data Group (PDG) with only one star is reported again in the $\Xi^{-}\pi^{+}$ final state by the Belle Collaboration. Its properties not only the spectroscopy but also the…
We evaluate the radiative and hadronic decay rates of the $D^*$ mesons using the Heavy Quark Effective Theory and the Vector Meson Dominance hypothesis. We also estimate the width of the $B^*$ electromagnetic transitions and the radiative…
We study QCD in 1+1 dimensions in the large Nc limit using light-front Hamiltonian perturbation theory in the 1/Nc expansion. We use this formalism to exactly compute hadronic transition matrix elements for arbitrary currents at leading…