DOI 10.1007/s100529900237
Flavour symmetry of mesonic decay couplings
E. van Beveren1 - G. Rupp2
1 Departamento de Física, Universidade de Coimbra,
3000 Coimbra, Portugal
(eef@malaposta.fis.uc.pt)
2 Centro de Física das Interacções Fundamentais,
Instituto Superior Técnico, Edifício Ciência,
1096 Lisboa Codex, Portugal
(george@ajax.ist.utl.pt)
Received: 8 January 1999 / Revised version: 19 April 1999 / Published online: 16 November 1999
Abstract
We present flavour-symmetric results for the OZI-allowed couplings
of
quark-antiquark systems to meson-meson channels in the
harmonic-oscillator
expansion. We tabulate their values for all possible open and
closed
decay channels of pseudoscalar, vector, and scalar mesons. We
compare
the predictions of a model that employs these flavour-symmetric
couplings, both with the results of a model which uses explicitly
flavour-dependent couplings, and with experiment.
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