Hadronic transitions between heavy-quark states in quantum chromodynamics

1980; American Physical Society; Volume: 22; Issue: 7 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1103/physrevd.22.1652

ISSN

1538-4500

Autores

Tung‐Mow Yan,

Tópico(s)

High-Energy Particle Collisions Research

Resumo

A general theory is formulated in quantum chromodynamics for hadronic transitions between heavy-quark states. Many predictions follow simply from the tensor properties of the multipoles that dominate in a transition. When a transition involves only soft-pion emission, partial conservation of the axial-vector current provides information on the mass and angular distributions of the pions. Applications to hadronic transitions within the $\ensuremath{\Upsilon}$ family are presented.

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