Spectroscopy and lifetime of bottom and charm hadrons.pdf

a r X i v : h e p - e x / 0 0 0 2 0 3 1 v 1 1 2 F e b 2 0 0 0 FERMILAB-Conf-00/009-E CDF/PUB/BOTTOM/CDFR/5204 February 7, 2008 SPECTROSCOPY AND LIFETIME OF BOTTOM AND CHARM HADRONS FUMIHIKO UKEGAWA Institute of Physics, University of Tsukuba Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8571, Japan The CDF Collaboration Invited talk at the 3rd International Conference on B Physics and CP Violation Taipei, Taiwan December 3 – 7, 1999 This is a blank page. SPECTROSCOPY AND LIFETIMES OF BOTTOM AND CHARM HADRONS Fumihiko Ukegawa (CDF Collaboration) Institute of Physics, University of Tsukuba Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8571 Japan E-mail: ukegawa@physics.px.tsukuba.ac.jp We review recent experimental results on spectroscopy and lifetimes of bottom and charm hadrons. 1 Introduction There are several motivations for studying masses and lifetimes of the hadrons containing a heavy quark, either the bottom or the charm quark. First, the mass and the lifetime are fundamental properties of an elementary particle. Second, the spectroscopy of hadrons gives insights into the QCD potential between quarks. In particular, a symmetry exists 1 for heavy hadrons when the heavy quark mass is taken to be infinite, providing a powerful tool to predict and understand properties of those heavy hadrons. Third, studies of the lifetimes of heavy hadrons probe their decay mechanisms. A measurement of the lifetime, or the total decay width, is necessary when we extract magnitudes of elements of the Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix 2. Again, in the limit of an infinite heavy quark mass things become simple and the decay of a heavy hadron should be the decay of the heavy quark Q. This leads to a prediction that all hadrons containing the heavy quark Q should have the same lifetime, that of the quarkQ. This is far from reality in the case of charm hadrons, where the D+ meson lifetime is about 2.5 times longer than the D0 meson lifetime. Perhaps the charm quark is not heavy enough. The simple quark decay picture should be a better app