Puzzles of excited charm meson masses

Ananthanarayanan, B and Banerjee, Sunanda and Shivaraj, K and Upadhyay, A (2007) Puzzles of excited charm meson masses. In: Physics Letters B, 651 (2-3). pp. 124-128.

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Abstract

We attempt a comprehensive analysis of the low lying charm meson states which present several puzzles, including the poor determination of masses of several non-strange excited mesons. We use the well-determined masses of the ground states and the strange first excited states to 'predict' the mass of the non-strange first excited state in the framework of heavy hadron chiral perturbation theory, an approach that is complementary to the well-known analysis of Mehen and Springer. This approach points to values for the masses of these states that are smaller than the experimental determinations. We provide a critical assessment of these mass measurements and point out the need for new experimental information. (c) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Physics Letters B
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belongs to Elsevier Science.
Department/Centre:	Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Centre for High Energy Physics
Date Deposited:	11 Jun 2010 05:55
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 05:59
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/26818

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