Published 1979 | Version v1
Journal article

Strong decays of psi(4.03) and psi(4.16) as radial excitations of charmonium

  • 1. Nice Univ., 06 (France). Lab. de Physique Theorique
  • 2. Brown Univ., Providence, RI (USA). Dept. of Physics

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Considering the signals detected at 4.03 and 4.16 GeV as radial excitations of charmonium, we study their relative decay rates into D anti D, D anti D + D anti D, D anti D. We point out that one can understand these two peaks as a c anti c 3S - 2 D wave state system with a large mixing angle in a Coulomb + linear interquark potential. We also examine the possibility that these two signals are respectively 3S and 4S wave excitations by studying a logarithmic charmonium potential model. We show that both these interpretaitons lead to drastically different predictions for the psi (4.16) decay rates (either D anti D + D anti D or D anti D mode is strongly suppressed) which would be very instructive to test experimentally. (orig.)

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Journal Title
Z. Phys., C
Journal Volume
3
Journal Issue
1
Series
Z. Phys., C.
Journal Page Range
37-41
ISSN
0170-9739