Deviation from the exactSU 3 symmetry in hadronic decays of ψ and contributions of electromagnetic interactions

Abstract

It is assumed that hadronic two-body decays of ψ proceed via the ψ-V (V=ρ, ω, ϕ) mixing and that the strong interactions which induce the ψ→V transition are mediated by gluons. The deviations from the exactSU 3 symmetry in the decays of ψ and the contributions of the amplitudes via the ψ→V transition mediated by a photon are examined semi-phenomenologically by fitting the calculated branching ratios for these decays to the corresponding experimental data. Our results are the following. i) There are sizable deviations (0.3≲β≲0.5) from the exactSU 3 symmetry in the decays of ψ into two-boson final states. They can be understood in terms of the symmetry-breaking effects in the residues of the vector meson poles. ii) The contributions of the amplitudes via the one-photon intermediate state are neither negligibly small nor dominant (|G(u)/E(u)|≈2.8). iii) The relative phase between the amplitudes via the gluon and the one-photon intermediate states is approximately equal to π/2. By using the values of the parameters estimated in this way, the branching ratios for the decays in which the amplitudes via the one-photon intermediate state dominate (in theSU 3 symmetry limit) can be predicted. Γ(f→2γ) is also discussed by using the vector meson dominance hypothesis.