{ "id": "hep-ph/0303170", "version": "v2", "published": "2003-03-19T21:43:52.000Z", "updated": "2004-05-17T19:25:17.000Z", "title": "Selection rules for J^PC Exotic Hybrid Meson Decay in Large-N_c", "authors": [ "Philip R. Page" ], "comment": "16 pages, LaTeX. Main paper shortened/rewritten and appendices expanded. Implications for phenomenology of exotic hybrid mesons clarified", "journal": "Phys.Rev. D70 (2004) 016004", "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevD.70.016004", "categories": [ "hep-ph" ], "abstract": "The coupling of a neutral hybrid {1,3,5...}^-+ exotic particle (or current) to two neutral (hybrid) meson particles with the same J^PC and J=0 is proved to be sub-leading to the usual large-N_c QCD counting. The coupling of the same exotic particle to certain two - (hybrid) meson currents with the same J^PC and J=0 is also sub-leading. The decay of a {1,3,5...}^-+ hybrid to eta pi^0, eta' pi^0, eta' eta, eta(1295) pi^0, pi(1300)^0 pi0, eta(1440) pi^0, a_0(980)^0 sigma or f_0(980) sigma is sub-leading, assuming that these final state particles are (hybrid) mesons in the limit of large N_c.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v2", "updated": "2004-05-17T19:25:17.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "11.15.Pg", "11.55.-m", "13.25.Jx", "12.39.Mk" ], "keywords": [ "exotic hybrid meson decay", "selection rules", "exotic particle", "final state particles", "neutral hybrid" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "publication": { "publisher": "APS", "journal": "Phys. Rev. D" }, "note": { "typesetting": "LaTeX", "pages": 16, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "inspire": 615493 } } }