From pole parameters to line shapes and branching ratios

L A Heuser1,2, G Chanturia2, F-K Guo3,4,5

  • 1Forschungszentrum Jülich, Institute for Advanced Simulation, 52425 Jülich, Germany.

The European Physical Journal. C, Particles and Fields
|November 8, 2024
PubMed
Summary

This study connects theoretical resonance parameters to experimental line shapes, enabling accurate calculation of partial widths and branching ratios for particles like the J/psi and Upsilon resonances.

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