{
  "id": "hep-ph/9807225",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "1998-07-02T18:04:20.000Z",
  "updated": "1998-07-02T18:04:20.000Z",
  "title": "$B_c$ mesons in a Bethe-Salpeter model",
  "authors": [
    "A. Abd El-Hady",
    "M. A. K. Lodhi",
    "J. P. Vary"
  ],
  "comment": "9 pages",
  "journal": "Phys.Rev. D59 (1999) 094001",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevD.59.094001",
  "categories": [
    "hep-ph"
  ],
  "abstract": "We apply our Bethe-Salpeter model for mesons to the $B_c$ family with parameters fixed in our previous investigation. We evaluate the mass of the pseudo-scalar $B_c$ meson as 6.356 GeV/$c^2$ and 6.380 GeV/$c^2$ and the lifetime as 0.47 ps and 0.46 ps respectively in two reductions of the Bethe-Salpeter Equation, in good agreement with the recently reported mass of 6.40 $\\pm$ 0.39 (stat.) $\\pm$ 0.13 (syst.) GeV/$c^2$ and lifetime of $0.46^{+0.18}_{-0.16}$ (stat.) $\\pm$ 0.03 (syst.) ps by the CDF Collaboration. We evaluate the decay constant of the $B_c$ meson and compare different contributions to its decay width.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "1998-07-02T18:04:20.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "bethe-salpeter model",
      "decay width",
      "cdf collaboration",
      "decay constant",
      "bethe-salpeter equation"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Phys. Rev. D"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 9,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 472681
    }
  }
}