Ambiguities in the calculation of leptonic decays of excited heavy quarkonium Abstract. We point out that the determination of the leptonic decay width of radially-excited quarkonia is strongly dependent on the position of the node typical of these excitations. We suggest that this feature could be related with the longstanding ρ− π puzzle.

Electronic transport properties of alkanedithiols are calculated by a first-principles method based on density functional theory and nonequilibrium Green's function formalism. At small bias, the I-V characteristics are linear and the resistances conform to the Magoga's exponential law. The calculated length-dependent decay constant gamma which reflects the effect of internal molecular structure...

We present determinations of the -meson decay constant f(B) and f(B)(s)/f(B) using the MILC Collaboration unquenched gauge configurations, which include three flavors of light sea quarks. The mass of one of the sea quarks is kept around the strange quark mass, and we explore a range in masses for the two lighter sea quarks down to m(s)/8. The heavy quark is simulated using nonrelativistic QCD, ...

We consider an inflationary model in the hidden-sector broken supergravity with an effectively large cutoff. The inflaton decay into right-handed neutrinos naturally causes the observed baryon asymmetry of the universe with a reheating temperature low enough to avoid the gravitino overproduction. We emphasize that all the phenomenological requirements from cosmology and particle physics are sat...

We elaborate on the hypothesis that in high energy hadron hadron and nucleus nucleus collisions the lowest mass glueballs are copiously produced from the gluon rich environment especially at high energy density. We discuss the particular glueball decay modes: 0 ++ , 2 ++ → KK and 0 ++ → π + π − ℓ + ℓ − .

‎In this paper we focus on the Cauchy problem for the generalized‎ ‎IBq equation with damped term in $n$-dimensional space‎. ‎We establish the global existence and decay estimates of solution with $L^q(1leq qleq 2)$ initial value‎, ‎provided that the initial value is suitably small‎. ‎Moreover‎, ‎we also show that the solution is asymptotic to the solution $u_L$ to the corresponding linear equa...

using qcd factorization for the hadronic matrix elements, we show that existing data, inparticular the branching ratios br ( b →j/ψk) and br ( b →j/ψπ), can be accounted for in this approach.we analyze the decay b j /k( ) within the framework of qcd factorization. the calculation of therelevant hard-scattering kernels for twist-2 and twist-3 is completed. we calculate this decay in a special...

We show that the molecule-like configuration of DD * enables weak binding even in the case of the Bhaduri or Grenoble AL1 interaction. Three-body forces may increase the binding and strengthen the cc diquark configuration. As a signature we propose the branching ratio between radiative and pionic decay.

The decay constants of pseudoscalar mesons are calculated in a relativistic quark model which assumes that mesons are made of a valence quark antiquark pair and of an effective vacuum like component. The results are given in terms of quark masses and of some free parameters entering the expression of the internal wave functions of the mesons. By using the pion and kaon decay constants Fπ+ = 130...