Three symmetry breakings in strong and radiative decays of strange heavy mesons

TL;DR

This paper examines three types of symmetry breaking effects in the strong and radiative decays of strange heavy mesons, using a covariant model to analyze corrections and compare with experimental data.

Contribution

It introduces a detailed analysis of symmetry breakings in heavy meson decays, including 1/m_Q, SU(3), and SU(2) effects, with numerical results consistent with theoretical expectations.

Findings

1/m_Q corrections align with _s __Q/m_Q

SU(3) symmetry violation in strong coupling is significant

Radiative decay rates are larger than other models but close to experimental data

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate three symmetry breaking effects in strong and radiative decays of strange heavy mesons. We study 1/m_Q corrections within the heavy quark effect theory, as well as SU(3) and SU(2) symmetry breakings induced by light quark mass differences and the \eta-\pi mixing vertex. These effects are studied in a covariant model. The numerical results show that the 1/m_Q corrections of the coupling constants are consistent with \alpha_s \Lambda_{QCD}/m_Q. The SU(3) symmetry violating effect of the strong coupling constant is obviously larger than that of the magnetic coupling constant. The value of the \eta-\pi mixing vertex has some changes because of the renewed data. As compared with the other theoretical calculations and the experimental data, our radiative decay rates are much larger than those of the other theoretical methods, except for \chiPT; however, our branching ratios are close to the experimental data.