Decay widths of bottomonium states in matter: A field theoretic model for composite hadrons

Amruta Mishra and S. P. Misra
Phys. Rev. C 95, 065206 – Published 13 June 2017

Abstract

We compute the in-medium partial decay widths of the bottomonium states to open bottom mesons (BB¯) using a field theoretical model for composite hadrons with quark constituents. These decay widths are calculated by using the explicit constructions for the bottomonium states and the open bottom mesons (B and B¯) and the quark-antiquark pair creation term of the free Dirac Hamiltonian written in terms of the constituent quark field operators. These decay widths in the hadronic medium are calculated as arising from the mass modifications of the bottomonium states and the B and B¯ mesons, obtained in a chiral effective model. The decay amplitude in the present model is multiplied with a strength parameter for the light quark pair creation, which is fitted from the observed vacuum partial decay width of the bottomonium state, Υ(4S) to BB¯. The effects of the isospin asymmetry, the strangeness fraction of the hadronic matter on the decay widths, arising due to the mass modifications due to these effects, have also been studied. There is observed to be appreciable effects from density, and the effects from isospin asymmetry on the parital decay widths of ΥBB¯ are observed to be quite pronounced at high densities. These effects should show up in the asymmetric heavy ion collisions in Compressed baryonic matter (CBM) experiments planned at the future facility at FAIR. The study of the Υ states will, however, require access to energies higher than the energy regime planned at the CBM experiment. The density effects on the decay widths of the bottomonium states should show up in the production of these states, as well as in dilepton spectra at the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) energies.

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  • Received 11 December 2016
  • Revised 11 April 2017

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.95.065206

©2017 American Physical Society

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Particles & FieldsNuclear Physics

Authors & Affiliations

Amruta Mishra*

  • Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, Hauz Khas, New Delhi, 110 016, India

S. P. Misra

  • Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, 751005, India

  • *Electronic address: amruta@physics.iitd.ac.in
  • Electronic address: misrasibaprasad@gmail.com

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Vol. 95, Iss. 6 — June 2017

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