The Strong Decays of $P-$wave Mixing Heavy-Light $1^+$ States

TL;DR

This paper predicts the strong decay widths of P-wave mixing heavy-light 1+ states using an improved Bethe-Salpeter method, providing valuable theoretical data for future experimental verification.

Contribution

It introduces a refined calculation of decay widths for heavy-light 1+ states considering mixing angles, which enhances understanding of their decay properties.

Findings

Decay widths vary significantly with mixing angles.

Predicted decay widths for various D and B mesons.

Results offer guidance for future experimental searches.

Abstract

Many $P-$wave mixing heavy-light $1^+$ states have not been discovered by experiment, some of them have been discovered but without the information of width, or with large uncertainty widths. In this paper, we study the strong decays of $P-$wave mixing heavy-light $1^+$ states $D^0$, $D^\pm$, $D_s^\pm$, $B^0$, $B^\pm$ and $B_s$ by the improved Bethe-Salpeter(B-S) method in two conditions of mixing angle $\theta$: one is $\theta=35.3^\circ$; another is considering the correction to mixing angle $\theta=35.3^\circ+\theta_1$. And we get some valuable predictions of the strong decay widths: $\Gamma(D_1^{\prime0})=232$ MeV, $\Gamma(D_1^0)=21.5$ MeV, $\Gamma(D_1^{\prime\pm})=232$ MeV, $\Gamma(D_1^\pm)=21.5$ MeV, $\Gamma(D_{s1}^{\prime\pm})=0.0101$ MeV, $\Gamma(D_{s1}^{\pm})=0.950$ MeV, $\Gamma(B_1^{\prime\pm})=263$ MeV, $\Gamma(B_1^{\pm})=16.8$ MeV, $\Gamma(B_{s1}^{\prime})=0.01987$ MeV and $\Gamma(B_{s1})=0.412$ MeV. We find that the decay widths of $D_{s1}^{\pm}$ and $B_{s1}$ are very sensitive to the mixing angle. And our results will provide the theoretical assistance by the future experiments.