Published September 1981 | Version v1
Journal article

Annihilation diagrams and D meson decays

  • 1. Gosudarstvennyj Komitet po Ispol'zovaniyu Atomnoj Ehnergii SSSR, Moscow. Inst. Teoreticheskoj i Ehksperimental'noj Fiziki

Description

Two mechanisms of heavy meson decay are analyzed for explanation of the found difference in the lifetime of D0- and D+-mesons. An analytical evaluation of contribution of the annihilation process to widths of nonlepton decays of D0-mesons is carried out. The calculated value oGITAsub(annih)/GITAsub(decay) width ratio makes up <0.3. Thus, the contribution of annihilation diagrams to widths of nonlepton decay turus to be three times less than the contribution from the quark decay. It is noted that if dominance of the annihilation mechanism in weak process is proved in further experimental investigation it would be necessary to take into account more complex configurations in wave functions of hadrons instead of single-gluon approximation

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Original title (Russian)
Аннигиляционные диаграммы и распады Д-мезонов

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Yad. Fiz.
Journal Volume
34
Journal Issue
9
Series
Yad. Fiz.
Journal Page Range
811-815
ISSN
0044-0027

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Notes
for English translation see the journal Soviet Journal of Nuclear Physics (USA). For English translation see the journal Soviet Journal of Nuclear Physics (USA).