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Strong Decays of Hybrid Mesons from the Heavy Quark Expansion of QCD

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OSTI ID:792785
We calculate the strong decays of hybrid mesons to conventional mesons for all the lowest lying J{sup PC} hybrids of flavour u{bar u}, d{bar d}, s{bar s}, c{bar c} and b{bar b}. A decay operator developed from the heavy quark expansion of quantum chromodynamics is employed. We show that the selection rule that hybrid mesons do not decay to identical S-wave mesons, found in other models, is preserved. We predict decays of charmonium hybrids, discuss decays of J{sup PC} = 1{sup -+} exotic isovector hybrids of various masses, and interpret the {pi}(1800) as a hybrid meson.
Research Organization:
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, VA (US)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Energy Research (ER) (US)
DOE Contract Number:
AC05-84ER40150
OSTI ID:
792785
Report Number(s):
JLAB-THY-97-50; DOE/ER/40150-2036; hep-ph/9711241
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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