We calculate the strong form factors and coupling constants of $ D^* D_s K$ and $D_s^* D K$ vertices using the QCD sum rules technique. In each case we have considered two different cases for the off-shell particle in the vertex: the ligthest meson and one of the heavy mesons. The method gives the same coupling constant for each vertex. When the results for different vertices are compared, they show that the SU(4) symmetry is broken by around 40%.
Using $pp$ collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of $5.4,{rm fb}^{-1}$ collected with the LHCb detector at a center-of-mass energy of $13,{rm TeV}$, the $B^0to D^-D^+K^+pi^-$ decay is studied. A new excited $D_s^+$ meson is observed decaying into the $D^+K^+pi^-$ final state with large statistical significance. The pole mass and width, and the spin-parity of the new state are measured with an amplitude analysis to be $m_R=2591pm6pm7,{rm MeV}$, $Gamma_R=89pm16pm12,{rm MeV}$ and $J^P=0^-$, where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second systematic. Fit fractions for all components in the amplitude analysis are also reported. The new resonance, denoted as $D_{s0}(2590)^+$, is a strong candidate to be the $D_s(2^1{S}_0)^+$ state, the radial excitation of the pseudoscalar ground-state $D_s^+$ meson.
We determine $D$ and $D_s$ decay constants from lattice QCD with 2% errors, 4 times better than experiment and previous theory: $f_{D_s}$ = 241(3) MeV, $f_D$ = 207(4) MeV and $f_{D_s}/f_D$ = 1.164(11). We also obtain $f_K/f_{pi}$ = 1.189(7) and $(f_{D_s}/f_D)/(f_K/f_{pi})$ = 0.979(11). Combining with experiment gives $V_{us}$=0.2262(14) and $V_{cs}/V_{cd}$ of 4.43(41). We use a highly improved quark discretization on MILC gluon fields that include realistic sea quarks fixing the $u/d, s$ and $c$ masses from the $pi$, $K$, and $eta_c$ meson masses. This allows a stringent test against experiment for $D$ and $D_s$ masses for the first time (to within 7 MeV).
The form factors and coupling constants of the meson vertices J/psi D_s D_s and phi D_s D_s were calculated using three point correlation functions within the QCD Sum Rules formalism. We have considered the cases where phi, D_s and J/psi mesons are off-shell obtaining, for each vertex, two different form factors and its corresponding coupling constants, namely g_{J/psi D_s D_s} = 6.20^{+0.97}_{-1.15} and g_{phi D_s D_s} = 1.85^{+0.22}_{-0.23}.
Studies of $e^+e^- to D_s^+ overline{D}{}^{(*)0}K^-$ and the $P$-wave charmed-strange mesons are performed based on an $e^+e^-$ collision data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 567 pb$^{-1}$ collected with the BESIII detector at $sqrt{s}= 4.600$ GeV. The processes of $e^+e^-to D_s^+ overline{D}{*}^{0} K^-$ and $D_s^+ overline{D}{}^{0} K^-$ are observed for the first time and are found to be dominated by the modes $D_s^+ D_{s1}(2536)^-$ and $D_s^+ D^*_{s2}(2573)^-$, respectively. The Born cross sections are measured to be $sigma^{B}(e^+e^-to D_s^+ overline{D}{*}^{0} K^-) = (10.1pm2.3pm0.8) pb$ and $sigma^{B}(e^+e^-to D_s^+ overline{D}{}^{0} K^-) = (19.4pm2.3pm1.6) pb$, and the products of Born cross section and the decay branching fraction are measured to be $sigma^{B}(e^+e^-to D_s^+D_{s1}(2536)^- + c.c.)cdotmathcal{B}(D_{s1}(2536)^- to overline{D}{*}^{0} K^-) = (7.5 pm 1.8 pm 0.7) pb$ and $sigma^{B}(e^+e^-to D_s^+ D^*_{s2}(2573)^- + c.c.)cdotmathcal{B}(D^*_{s2}(2573)^- to overline{D}{}^{0} K^-) = (19.7 pm 2.9 pm 2.0) pb$. For the $D_{s1}(2536)^-$ and $D^*_{s2}(2573)^-$ mesons, the masses and widths are measured to be $M(D_{s1}(2536)^-) = (2537.7 pm 0.5 pm 3.1)~MeV/c^2,$ $ Gamma(D_{s1}(2536)^-)) = (1.7pm 1.2 pm 0.6)~rm MeV,$ and $M(D^*_{s2}(2573)^-) = (2570.7pm 2.0 pm 1.7)~MeV/c^2,$ $Gamma(D^*_{s2}(2573)^-) = (17.2 pm 3.6 pm 1.1)~rm MeV.$ The spin-parity of the $D^*_{s2}(2573)^-$ meson is determined to be $J^P=2^{+}$. In addition, the process $e^+e^-to D_s^+ overline{D}{}^{(*)0} K^-$ are searched for using the data samples taken at four (two) center-of-mass energies between 4.416 (4.527) and 4.575 GeV, and upper limits at the $90%$ confidence level on the cross sections are determined.
We report a study of the processes of $e^+e^-to K^+ (D_s^- D^{*0} + D^{*-}_s D^0)$ based on $e^+e^-$ annihilation samples collected with the BESIII detector operating at BEPCII at five center-of-mass energies ranging from 4.628 to 4.698 GeV with a total integrated luminosity of 3.7 fb$^{-1}$. An excess over the known contributions of the conventional charmed mesons is observed near the $D_s^- D^{*0}$ and $D^{*-}_s D^0$ mass thresholds in the $K^{+}$ recoil-mass spectrum for events collected at $sqrt{s}=4.681$ GeV. The structure matches a mass-dependent-width Breit-Wigner line shape, whose pole mass and width are determined as $(3982.5^{+1.8}_{-2.6}pm2.1)$ MeV/$c^2$ and $(12.8^{+5.3}_{-4.4}pm3.0)$ MeV, respectively. The first uncertainties are statistical and the second are systematic. The significance of the resonance hypothesis is estimated to be 5.3 $sigma$ over the contributions only from the conventional charmed mesons. This is the first candidate of the charged hidden-charm tetraquark with strangeness, decaying into $D_s^- D^{*0}$ and $D^{*-}_s D^0$. However, the properties of the excess need further exploration with more statistics.