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Intrinsic Charm of Vector Mesons: A Possible Solution of the "rho pi" Puzzle

Stanley J. Brodsky, Marek Karliner

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9704379

Abstract

An outstanding mystery of charmonium physics is why the J/ψdecays prominently to pseudoscalar plus vector meson channels, such as J/ψ-> ρπand J/ψ-> K*K, whereas the ψ'(2S) does not. We show that such decays of J/ψand their suppression for ψ'(2S) follow naturally from the existence of intrinsic charm |qbar q cbar c> Fock components of the light vector mesons.

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