Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
1995-02-09
Phys.Rev.D52:1627-1638,1995
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
20 pages, plain TeX, 1 uuencoded postscript figure
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.52.1627
We compute the electromagnetic mass differences of mesons containing a single heavy quark in terms of measurable data using QCD-based arguments in heavy-quark effective theory. We derive an unsubtracted dispersion relation that shows that the mass differences are calculable in terms of the properties of the lowest-lying physical intermediate states. We then consider the problem in the large-$N$ limit, where $N$ is the number of QCD colors. In this limit, we can write a kind of double-dispersion relation for the amplitude required to determine the electromagnetic mass difference. We use this to derive analogs of the Weinberg sum rules for heavy meson matrix elements valid to leading order in $1/N$ and to $O(1/m_Q)$ in the heavy quark expansion. In order to obtain our final result, we assume that the electromagnetic mass differences and sum rules are dominated by the lowest-lying states in analogy with the situation for the $\pi^+$--$\pi^0$ mass difference. Despite the fact that some of the matrix elements appearing in our final result have not yet been accurately measured, we can obtain useful numerical estimates: for example, we obtain $(M_{B^+} - M_{B^0})^{EM} \simeq +1.8 \MeV$. We argue that our results are accurate to about $30\%$.
Luty Markus A.
Sundrum Raman
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