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Strong Decays of Hybrid Mesons from the Heavy Quark Expansion of QCD

Philip R. Page

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9711241

Abstract

We calculate the strong decays of hybrid mesons to conventional mesons for all the lowest lying JPC hybrids of flavour uu, dd, ss, cc and bb. A decay operator developed from the heavy quark expansion of quantum chromodynamics is employed. We show that the selection rule that hybrid mesons do not decay to identical S-wave mesons, found in other models, is preserved. We predict decays of charmonium hybrids, discuss decays of JPC=1-+ exotic isovector hybrids of various masses, and interpret the π(1800) as a hybrid meson.

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