Charmed Meson Spectroscopy

Preliminary Results on Charmed Meson Spectroscopy

We present preliminary results from the FOCUS experiment (E831 at Fermilab) on the spectroscopy of bound states of a charm quark and a light quark with orbital angular momentum L = 1, called D∗ 2(cū, cd̄). A theoretical framework for the spectrum of heavy-light mesons is given by Heavy Quark Symmetry (HQS), which predicts both narrow and broad states. While the narrow states are well established...

The Charmed Strange Meson System

Motivated by the recent surprising discovery of two new meson states with cs̄ quark content but unexpectedly low masses and narrow total decay widths, we work out, in a nonrelativistic potential-model approach developed already some two decades ago, the predictions for the energy levels of the corresponding charm–anti-strange quark bound states. In spite of the fact that this simple quark model ...

Charmed Meson Scattering from Lattice QCD

Measurement of Charmed Meson Lifetimes with Belle

The lifetimes of charmed mesons have been measured using 2.75 fb of data collected with the Belle detector at KEKB. Each candidate is fully reconstructed to identify the flavor of the charmed meson. The lifetimes are measured to be τ(D) = (414.8±3.8±3.4) fs, τ(D) = (1040 −22 ± 18) fs and τ(D + s ) = (479 +17 −16 +6 −8) fs, where the first error is statistical and the second error is systematic....

Hadronic Charmed Meson Decays Involving Tensor Mesons

Charmed meson decays into a pseudoscalar meson P and a tensor meson T are studied. The charm to tensor meson transition form factors are evaluated in the Isgur-Scora-Grinstein-Wise (ISGW) quark model. It is shown that the Cabibbo-allowed decay D+ s → f2(1270)π is dominated by the W -annihilation contribution and has the largest branching ratio in D → TP decays. We argue that the Cabibbo-suppres...