We revisit earlier calculations of leptonic decay constants of vector charmonia and present and illustrate our decomposition of the corresponding covariant Bethe-Salpeter amplitudes in terms of orbital angular momentum as interpreted in the mesons rest frame. Our results confirm our previous conclusions drawn from the magnitudes of vector-meson leptonic decay constants, identifying the Psi(3770) and Psi(4160) as D-wave states in our setup.
We give a short and basic introduction to our covariant Dyson-Schwinger-Bethe-Salpeter-equation approach using a rainbow-ladder truncated model of QCD, in which we investigate the leptonic decay properties of heavy quarkonium states in the pseudoscalar and vector channels. Comparing the magnitudes of decay constants, we identify radial 1-- excitations in our calculation with experimental excitations of J/Psi and Upsilon. Particular attention is paid to those states regarded as D-wave states in the quark model. We predict e+e- decay width of the Upsilon(1^3D_1) and Upsilon(2^3D_1) states of the order of ca. 15 eV or more. We also provide a set of predictions for decay constants of pseudoscalar radial excitations in heavy quarkonia.
We reemphasize that the ratio $R_{smu} equiv overline{mathcal{B}}(B_stomubarmu)/Delta M_s$ is a measure of the tension of the Standard Model (SM) with latest measurements of $overline{mathcal{B}}(B_stomubarmu)$ that does not suffer from the persistent puzzle on the $|V_{cb}|$ determinations from inclusive versus exclusive $bto cellbar u$ decays and which affects the value of the CKM element $|V_{ts}|$ that is crucial for the SM predictions of both $overline{mathcal{B}}(B_stomubarmu)$ and $Delta M_s$, but cancels out in the ratio $R_{smu}$. In our analysis we include higher order electroweak and QED corrections und adapt the latest hadronic input to find a tension of about $2sigma$ for $R_{smu}$ measurements with the SM independently of $|V_{ts}|$. We also discuss the ratio $R_{dmu}$ which could turn out, in particular in correlation with $R_{smu}$, to be useful for the search for New Physics, when the data on both ratios improves. Also $R_{dmu}$ is independent of $|V_{cb}|$ or more precisely $|V_{td}|$.
The mass and coupling of the doubly charmed $J^P=0^{-}$ diquark-antidiquark states $T_{cc;bar{s} bar{s}}^{++}$ and $T_{cc;bar{d} bar{s}}^{++}$ that bear two units of the electric charge are calculated by means of QCD two-point sum rule method. Computations are carried out by taking into account vacuum condensates up to and including terms of tenth dimension. The dominant $S$-wave decays of these tetraquarks to a pair of conventional $ D_{s}^{+}D_{s0}^{ast +}(2317)$ and $D^{+}D_{s0}^{ast +}(2317)$ mesons are explored using QCD three-point sum rule approach, and their widths are found. The obtained results $m_{T}=(4390~pm 150)~mathrm{MeV}$ and $Gamma =(302 pm 113~mathrm{MeV}$) for the mass and width of the state $T_{cc;bar{ s} bar{s}}^{++}$, as well as spectroscopic parameters $widetilde{m} _{T}=(4265pm 140)~mathrm{MeV}$ and $widetilde{Gamma }=(171~pm 52)~ mathrm{MeV}$ of the tetraquark $T_{cc;bar{d} bar{s}}^{++}$ may be useful in experimental studies of exotic resonances.
The mass spectrum and the two-body open-charm decays of the $J^{PC}=1^{--}$ charmonium states are studied with the coupled-channel effects taken into account. The coupled-channel-induced mixing effects among the excited vector charmonia are studied. Based on our calculations of the masses and the decay widths, we find that the tension between the observed properties of $Y(4260)/Y(4360)$ and their conventional charmonia interpretations could be softened.
In this work, we analyze the semi-leptonic decays $bar B^0/D^0 to (a_0(980)^{pm}topi^{pm}eta) l^{mp} u$ within light-cone sum rules. The two and three-body light-cone distribution amplitudes (LCDAs) of the $B$ meson and the only available two-body LCDA of the $D$ meson are used. To include the finite-width effect of the $a_0(980)$, we use a scalar form factor to describe the final-state interaction between the $pieta$ mesons, which was previously calculated within unitarized Chiral Perturbation Theory. The result for the decay branching fraction of the $D^0$ decay is in good agreement with that measured by the BESIII Collaboration, while the branching fraction of the $bar B^0$ decay can be tested in future experiments.