Using a total of 2.74 x 10^7 decays of the psi(2S) collected with the CLEO-c detector, we present a study of chi_cJ -> gamma V, where V = rho^0, omega, phi. The transitions chi_c1 -> gamma rho^0 and chi_c1 -> gamma omega are observed with B(chi_c1 -> gamma rho^0) = (2.43 +- 0.19 +- 0.22) x 10^-4 and B(chi_c1 -> gamma omega) = (8.3 +- 1.5 +- 1.2) x 10^-5. In the chi_c1 -> gamma rho^0 transition, the final state meson is dominantly longitudinally polarized. Upper limits on the branching fractions of other chi_cJ states to light vector mesons are presented.
The decays of light vector mesons into three pseudoscalar mesons are calculated to leading order in the recently proposed counting scheme that is based on the hadrogenesis conjecture. Fully differential as well as integrated decay widths are presented. Since the required parameters have been fixed by other processes, the considered three-body decays are predictions of the presented approach. The decay width of the omega meson into three pions agrees very well with experiment. The partial decay widths of the K^* into its three K-pi-pi channels are predicted.
Using a sample of $4.48times10^{8}$ $psi(3686)$ events collected with the BESIII detector at the BEPCII collider, we study the two-photon decays of the pseudoscalar mesons $pi^0$, $eta$, $eta^prime$, $eta(1405)$, $eta(1475)$, $eta(1760)$, and $X(1835)$ in $J/psi$ radiative decays using $psi(3686)topi^{+}pi^{-}J/psi$ events. The $pi^0$, $eta$ and $eta^prime$ mesons are clearly observed in the two-photon mass spectra, and the branching fractions are determined to be $B(J/psitogammapi^{0}to3gamma)=(3.57pm0.12pm0.16)times10^{-5}$, $B(J/psitogammaetato3gamma)=(4.42pm0.04pm0.18)times10^{-4}$, and $B(J/psitogammaetato3gamma)=(1.26pm0.02pm0.05)times10^{-4}$, where the first errors are statistical and the second systematic. No clear signal for $eta(1405)$, $eta(1475)$, $eta(1760)$ or $X(1835)$ is observed in the two-photon mass spectra, and upper limits at the $90%$ confidence level on the product branching fractions are obtained.
The transition form factors of the radiative decays of the heavy tensor mesons to heavy pseudoscalar and heavy vector mesons are calculated in the framework of the light cone QCD sum rules method at the point $Q^2=0$. Using the obtained values of the transition form factors at the point $Q^2=0$ the corresponding decay widths are estimated. The results show that the radiative decays of the heavy--light tensor mesons can be measurable in the future planned experiments at LHCb.
We will discuss how the decays of charm mesons can be used to study light mesons spectroscopy, by presenting recent results of Dalitz plot analyses using data from Fermilab experiment E791. Emphasis will be on scalar mesons, which are found to have large contribution to the $D$ decays studied. In addition to the usual extraction of decay fractions and relative phases of the intermediate amplitudes, the Dalitz plot technique is used to measure masses and widths of scalar resonances. From the $D_s$ decay, we obtain masses and widths of $f_0(980)$ and $f_0(1370)$. We find evidence for a light and broad scalar resonance, the $sigma$ meson, in $D^+topi^-pi^+pi^+$ decay. Preliminary studies also show evidence for a light and broad resonance, the $kappa$ meson, in $D^+to K^-pi^+pi^+$ decay. These results illustrate the potential of charm decays as a laboratory for the study of light mesons.