Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2009-01-26
Phys.Rev.D82:014008,2010
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
v3; 5 pages, 1 figure and 1 table; title changed, presentation improved
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.82.014008
For a class of hindered magnetic dipole ($M1$) transition processes, such as $\Upsilon(3S)\to \eta_b+\gamma$ (the discovery channel of the $\eta_b$ meson), the emitted photon is rather energetic so that the traditional approaches based on multipole expansion may be invalidated. We propose that a "hard-scattering" picture, somewhat analogous to the pion electromagnetic form factor at large momentum transfer, may be more plausible to describe such types of transition processes. We work out a simple factorization formula at lowest order in the strong coupling constant, which involves convolution of the Schr\"odinger wave functions of quarkonia with a perturbatively calculable part induced by exchange of one semihard gluon between quark and antiquark. This formula, without any freely adjustable parameters, is found to agree with the measured rate of $\Upsilon(3S)\to \eta_b+\gamma$ rather well, and can also reasonably account for other recently measured hindered $M1$ transition rates. The branching fractions of $\Upsilon(4S)\to \eta_b^{(\prime)}+\gamma$ are also predicted.
Jia Yu
Xu Jia
Zhang Juan
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