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Gluonic Excitations in Heavy Mesons and their Decay by Flux-Tube Breaking

Philip R. Page

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9410323

Abstract

We have examined decays of low-lying gluonic excitations of mesons (hybrids) by chromoelectric flux-tube breaking. An analytical calculation of non-relativistic flux-tube model decay amplitudes is performed in an harmonic oscillator approximation. Specific decay signatures of all JPC charmonium hybrids are identified and the widths predicted. We introduce a new selection rule which can be used to understand the systematics of numerical decay calculations.

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