What can a relativistic quark model tell us about charmed mesons?
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- 19 October 1994
Abstract
A relativistic quark model is extended to incorporate chiral and gauge symmetries. We obtain the DD*pi and DD*gamma couplings and find that the ratio Gamma(D*0->D0pi0)/Gamma(D*0->D0gamma) constrains the charm-quark mass close to 1.45 GeV. Large 1/mc corrections appear in the heavy-quark contribution to the DD*gamma coupling. The model is extended further to describe seven excited D meson states. We find that semileptonic B decays into the ground and excited D meson states do not account for the total semileptonic decay width of the B0. The nonresonant contributions to the processes B0->D(*)pi+ell+nu appear to be large enough to account for the discrepancy.Keywords
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- Version 1, 1994-10-19, ArXiv
- Published version: Physical Review D, 51 (9), 5053.
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