Relating production and masses of the vector and P-wave mesons for light and heavy flavours at LEP

Abstract

The production rates of primary vector and P -wave mesons in Z 0 hadronic decays are analysed. The mass dependence of production rates for the bottom, charm, strange charm and three families of the light-flavour mesons is found to be very similar, allowing to relate the relative production rates for mesons with different flavours and, possibly, their masses. The strange axial mesons K 1 (1273) and K 1 (1402) might be assigned to the 1 + (1/2) and 1 + (3/2) levels degenerate with the 0 + (1/2) and 2 + (3/2) levels of the K * 0 (1430) and K * 2 (1430), respectively, if the observed K * 0 (1430) mass is replaced by its "bare" qq mass corresponding to the K-matrix pole and close to the K 1 (1273) mass. Then the 0 + (1/2) and 1 + (1/2) levels are below the 1 + (3/2) and 2 + (3/2) levels for the strange, charm and bottom mesons.

A review of the open charm and open bottom systems

“…More discussions using other models and methods can be found in Refs. [471,472,473,474,475,476,477,398,478,479,480,481,482,483,484,485,486,487,488,489,490].…”