Excited Charm Mesons in Semileptonic B Decay and their Contributions to a Bjorken Sum Rule
It has recently been shown that hadrons containing a single heavy quark exhibit a new flavor-spin symmetry of QCD. We exploit this symmetry to obtain model independent predictions for the fourteen form factors in weak decays from the ground state pseudoscalar meson P(sub)Q(sub)i of a heavy quark Q(sub)i to the low-lying positive parity excited states of a heavy quark Q(sub)j in terms of two universal functions of momentum transfer. These predictions are of interest in the study of B -> D*(sub)2(2460), D(sub)1(~2460), D(sub)1(2420), and D*(sub)0(~2420) semileptonic decays. We also discuss the connection between these results and the slope of the function Xi (which determines the B->D and B->D* transition form factors) given by a heavy quark sum rule suggested by Bjorken.
- Research Organization:
- Thomas Jefferson Lab National Accelerator Facility
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-84ER40150
- OSTI ID:
- 954199
- Report Number(s):
- CEBAF-TH-90-03; WM-90-114
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review D, Journal Name: Physical Review D Vol. 43
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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