TY - JOUR
T1 - Quarkonium decays
T2 - Testing the 3-gluon vertex
AU - Koller, K.
AU - Streng, K. H.
AU - Walsh, T. F.
AU - Zerwas, P. M.
PY - 1981/12/21
Y1 - 1981/12/21
N2 - We study the 3-jet decays of S- and P-wave quarkonia with C=+. If observed, some of these will offer a way of seeing the 3G vertex of QCD via 1S0, 3P0, 3P2(QQ) → GGG + Gqq → 3 jets. (As is well-known, cancellations reduce 3P1(QQ)→GGG.) We elaborate in detail the S-wave decay, as it is expected to show all the characteristic features of orthoquarkonium decays into 4 jets, 3S1(QQ) → GGGG + GGqq → 4 jets, which we will comment upon. These quarkonium decays offer a very clear signal for QCD as a non-abelian local gauge field theory with color-charged gluons.
AB - We study the 3-jet decays of S- and P-wave quarkonia with C=+. If observed, some of these will offer a way of seeing the 3G vertex of QCD via 1S0, 3P0, 3P2(QQ) → GGG + Gqq → 3 jets. (As is well-known, cancellations reduce 3P1(QQ)→GGG.) We elaborate in detail the S-wave decay, as it is expected to show all the characteristic features of orthoquarkonium decays into 4 jets, 3S1(QQ) → GGGG + GGqq → 4 jets, which we will comment upon. These quarkonium decays offer a very clear signal for QCD as a non-abelian local gauge field theory with color-charged gluons.
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U2 - 10.1016/0550-3213(81)90518-6
DO - 10.1016/0550-3213(81)90518-6
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:49149135944
SN - 0550-3213
VL - 193
SP - 61
EP - 84
JO - Nuclear Physics, Section B
JF - Nuclear Physics, Section B
IS - 1
ER -