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TMF, 2012 Volume 170, Number 1, Pages 49–61 (Mi tmf6745)

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The $Z\to c\bar c\to\gamma\gamma^*$, $Z\to b\bar b\to\gamma\gamma^*$ triangle diagrams and the $Z\to\gamma\psi$, $Z\to\gamma\Upsilon$ decays

N. N. Achasov

Sobolev Institute for Mathematics, Siberian Branch, RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia

Abstract: We expounded an approach for studying the $Z\to\gamma\psi$ and $Z\to \gamma\Upsilon$ decay based on the sum rules for the $Z\to c\bar c\to \gamma\gamma^*$ and $Z\to b\bar b\to\gamma\gamma^*$ amplitudes and their derivatives. We calculate the branching ratios of the $Z\to\gamma\psi$ and $Z\to\gamma\Upsilon$ decays under different suppositions about the saturation of the sum rules. We find the lower bounds of $\sum_{\psi}BR(Z\to\gamma\psi)= 1.95\cdot10^{-7}$ and $\sum_{\Upsilon}BR(Z\to\gamma\Upsilon)=7.23\cdot10^{-7}$ and discuss deviations from the lower bounds including the possibility of $BR[Z\to\gamma J/\psi(1S)]\sim BR[Z\to\gamma\Upsilon(1S)]\sim10^{-6}$, which is probably measurable at the LHC. Moreover, we calculate the angle distributions in the $Z\to\gamma\psi$ and $Z\to\gamma\Upsilon$ decays.

Keywords: $Z$-boson radiative decay, heavy quark, triangle diagram.

Received: 19.01.2012

DOI: 10.4213/tmf6745


 English version:
Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, 2012, 170:1, 39–51

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