Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2007-10-15
AIPConf.Proc.964:124-131,2007
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
9 pages, Talk given at the QCD@Work 2007 International Workshop on QCD: Theory and Experiment}, Martina Franca, Italy, 16--20
Scientific paper
10.1063/1.2823837
With the recent measurements on $\eta_{c}$ and $\eta_{c}^{\prime}$ at CLEO, Babar and Belle, and with the prospect of finding the $\eta_{b}$ at the Tevatron, it seems appropriate to have another look at the two-photon decay of heavy quarkonium from the standpoint of an effective Lagrangian based on local operator expansion and heavy-quark spin symmetry. In this talk, I would like to discuss a recent work on the two-photon decay rates of ground states and excited states of $\eta_c$ and $\eta_b$ using the local operator expansion approach and heavy-quark spin symmetry and taking into account the binding-energy. We find that the predicted two-photon width for $\eta_c$ agrees well with experiment, but the predicted value for $\eta_c(2S)$ is twice larger than the CLEO estimation. We point out that the essentially model-independent ratio of $\eta_b$ two-photon width to the $\Upsilon$ leptonic width and the $\eta_b $ two-photon width could be used to extract the strong coupling constant $\alpha_s$ .
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