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Heavy- to light-meson transition form factors

Journal Article · · Physical Review, C
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  1. Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, 141980Dubna (Russia)
  2. Laboratory of Computing Techniques and Automation, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, 141980Dubna (Russia)
  3. Physics Division, Building 203, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois60439-4843 (United States)
Semileptonic heavy{r_arrow}heavy and heavy{r_arrow}light meson transitions are studied as a phenomenological application of a heavy-quark limit of Dyson-Schwinger equations. Employing two parameters, E, the difference between the mass of the heavy meson and the effective mass of the heavy quark, and {Lambda}, the width of the heavy-meson Bethe-Salpeter amplitude, we calculate f{sub +}(t) for all decays on their entire kinematically accessible t domain. Our study favors f{sub B} in the range 0.135{endash}0.17 GeV and with E=0.44 GeV and 1/{Lambda}=0.14 fm we obtain f{sub +}{sup B{pi}}(0)=0.46. As a result of neglecting 1/m{sub c} corrections, we estimate that our calculated values of {rho}{sup 2}=0.87 and f{sub +}{sup DK}(0)=0.62 are too low by approximately 15{percent}. However, the bulk of these corrections should cancel in our calculated values of Br(D{r_arrow}{pi}scr(l){nu})/Br(D{r_arrow}Kscr(l){nu})=0.13 and f{sub +}{sup D{pi}}(0)/f{sub +}{sup DK}(0)=1.16. {copyright} {ital 1998} {ital The American Physical Society}
OSTI ID:
627570
Journal Information:
Physical Review, C, Journal Name: Physical Review, C Journal Issue: 4 Vol. 57; ISSN 0556-2813; ISSN PRVCAN
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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