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Heavy-Quark Symmetry and the Electromagnetic Decays of Excited Charmed Strange Mesons

Journal Article · · Physical Review
OSTI ID:836602
Heavy-hadron chiral perturbation theory (HH{chi}PT) is applied to the decays of the even-parity charmed strange mesons, D{sub s0}(2317) and D{sub s1}(2460). Heavy-quark spin symmetry predicts the branching fractions for the three electromagnetic decays of these states to the ground states D{sub s} and D{sub s}* in terms of a single parameter. The resulting predictions for two of the branching fractions are significantly higher than current upper limits from the CLEO experiment. Leading corrections to the branching ratios from chiral loop diagrams and spin-symmetry violating operators in the HH{chi}PT Lagrangian can naturally account for this discrepancy. Finally the proposal that the D{sub s0}(2317) (D{sub s1}(2460)) is a hadronic bound state of a D (D*) meson and a kaon is considered. Leading order predictions for electromagnetic branching ratios in this molecular scenario are in very poor agreement with existing data.
Research Organization:
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, VA (US)
Sponsoring Organization:
US Department of Energy; USDOE Office of Energy Research (ER) (US)
DOE Contract Number:
AC05-84ER40150
OSTI ID:
836602
Report Number(s):
JLAB-THY-04-65; DOE/ER/40150-3113; hep-ph/0407181
Journal Information:
Physical Review, Journal Name: Physical Review Vol. D
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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