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Hyperon Radiative Decays in the 1/Nc Expansion

Richard F. Lebed, Daniel R. Martin

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/0404273

Abstract

Using a recent calculation of transition magnetic moments in the 1/Nc expansion and a calculation showing the suppression of E2/M1 by powers of Nc, we compute the widths for the radiative decays Sigma* --> Sigma gamma, Sigma* --> Lambda gamma, and Xi* --> Xi gamma.

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