Strong couplings of charmed mesons and quarkonia

Author(s)
Wolfgang Lucha, Dmitri Melikhov, Hagop Sazdjian, Silvano Simula
Abstract

We extract the strong coupling constants of three mesons, each of which is composed of either two charm quarks or one charm quark and one light (i.e., u, d, or s) quark, from the matrix elements for the transitions of two of these mesons induced by appropriate quark currents within the framework of a relativistic dispersion approach to the constituent-quark picture of mesons. Among others, we also analyse the impact of the violation of the SU(3) flavour symmetry by the quark masses. In the case of mesons containing one light quark, we observe, in two respects, discrepancies between our findings and the predictions of QCD sum rules: our strong couplings exceed considerably the ones emerging from QCD sum rules, and, in our approach, the replacement of a light quark by a strange quark entails, in contrast to QCD sum rules, a reduction of the magnitudes of the strong couplings.

Organisation(s)
Particle Physics
External organisation(s)
Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW), Anuchin Research Institute and Museum of Anthropology, Universität Wien, Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Roma
Journal
Proceedings of Science (PoS)
Volume
234
No. of pages
6
DOI
https://doi.org/10.22323/1.234.0428
Publication date
2016
Peer reviewed
Yes
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
103034 Particle physics
ASJC Scopus subject areas
General
Portal url
https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/en/publications/strong-couplings-of-charmed-mesons-and-quarkonia(8f2c9236-280a-4911-8e1a-48396922c99e).html