Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2002-04-19
Nucl.Phys. A710 (2002) 99-116
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
17 pages, uses Feynmf. Submitted to Nuclear Physics A, accepted version
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0375-9474(02)01125-9
The known ratio of the branching fractions for D_s^* --> D_s pi^0 and D_s^* --> D_s gamma may be used to extract the coupling of eta mesons to strange quarks once the value of the pi^0-eta mixing angle is known. This requires that realistic models for the spectra as well as the magnetic dipole (M1) decays of the heavy-light (Q qbar) mesons are available. The coupling of eta mesons to light quarks may then be estimated using SU(3) flavor symmetry. Applied to the quark model for the baryons, an eta NN pseudovector coupling constant of f_{eta NN} = 0.35^{+0.15}_{-0.25} is obtained. If the charm quark couples significantly to the eta meson, as is suggested by the decay mode psi' --> J/(psi eta), then somewhat larger values of f_{eta NN} can be obtained. These values are sufficiently small to be consistent with phenomenological analysis of photoproduction of the eta on the nucleon and the reaction pp --> pp eta.
Lahde Timo A.
Riska} D. O.
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