https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-009-1106-z
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Canonical interpretation of the η 2(1870)
Department of Physics, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, 450052, People’s Republic of China
* e-mail: lidm@zzu.edu.cn
Received:
10
June
2009
Revised:
2
July
2009
Published online:
30
July
2009
We argue that the mass, production, total decay width, and decay pattern of the η
2(1870) do not appear to contradict with the picture of it as being the conventional 2 1
D
2
state. The possibility of the η
2(1870) being a mixture of the conventional
and a hybrid is also discussed.
PACS: 14.40.Cs – / 12.39.-x – / 13.25.Gv –
© Springer-Verlag / Società Italiana di Fisica, 2009
