The Spectra of Heavy Mesons in e+ e- Annihilation

Dec, 1974
11 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.Lett. 34 (1975) 168,
  • Phys.Rev.Lett. 34 (1975) 296 (erratum)
Report number:
  • Print-74-1726 (HARVARD)

Citations per year

1975198719992011202201020304050
Abstract: (APS)
The picture that charmed quarks are interacting with each other through a linear potential is used to analyze the particle spectrum in the high-energy annihilation process e+e−→hadrons. With the newly found resonances at 3.1 and 3.7 GeV as input, we predict other resonances (in particular, one at approximately 4.0 GeV) and determine the hadronic width of the 3.1 and leptonic widths of the 3.1 and 3.7 resonances. Extending the linear potential to quarks without charm enables us to predict the charmed-particle threshold to be approximately 5 GeV.