Charm meson couplings in hard-wall Holographic QCD
S. Momeni1111e-mail: [email protected] and
M. Saghebfar2222e-mail: [email protected]1Department of Physics, Isfahan University of
Technology, Isfahan 84156-83111, Iran
2Optics-Laser Science and Technology Research Center, Malek Ashtar
University of Technology, Isfahan , Iran
Abstract
The four- flavor hard- wall holographic QCD is studied to evaluate
the couplings of , ,
, ,
, , ,
, , ,
, , ,
, , ,
,
and vertices. Moreover, the values of the masses of , ,
, , , , , , and as well as the decay constant
of , , , , , and
are estimated in this study. A comparison is also made between our results and the experimental values of the
masses and decay constants. Our results for strong couplings are also compared with the
3PSR and LCSR predictions.
pacs:
12.40.-y, 14.40.Lb, 14.40.-n
I Introduction
In recent investigations, the strong interaction of charmed hadrons
among themselves and with other particles have received remarkable attention.
In phenomenology of the high energy physics,
charm meson vertices play a perfect role in
meson interactions.
In recent years, a relatively new
approach named the anti-de Sitter space/quantum chromodynamics (AdS/QCD) correspondence has been utilized
to predict the form factors and couplings for the hadronic systems. This method is inspired
from correspondence between a type IIB string theory
and super Yang-Mills theory in the large
limit with Maldacena1998 ; Witten1998 ; Gubser1998 .
In this approach,
corresponding to every field in the space, an
operator is defined in 4 dimensional gauge theory, and
the correlation functions involving currents are related
to the D action by functional differentiation with respect to their
sources Witten1998 ; Gubser1998 ; Grigoryan2007 ; Abidin2008 .
Utilizing (AdS/QCD) correspondence approach interesting results are
reported as the masses, couplings,
electromagnetic and gravitational form factors of mesons
Polchinski2002 ; Polchinski20022 ; Brodsky2004 ; Teramond2005 ; Brodsky2006 ; Brodsky2008 ; Grigoryan20072 ; Grigoryan20073 ; Grigoryan2008 ; Kwee2008 ; Kwee20082 ; Boschi-Filho2006 ; Abidin20082 ; Abidin20091 .
This method is also utilized to predict transition form factors in Abidin2009 .
In addition, the strong couplings , , ,
and are analyzed in a hard wall holographic QCD in Bayona2017 .
Our goal in this paper is to extract the couplings of , , ,
, , , ,
and in hard wall holographic QCD with four flavors.
The paper is organized as follows: In Sec. II, our model including pseudoscalar, vector and axial vector mesons
is introduced. In Sec. III, the wavefunctions and the decay constant of studied mesons are extracted from
our model. The strong couplings for three and four- meson vertices derived in Sec. IV and Sec. V
is reserved for numerical analysis. Our prediction for masses, decay constants, wavefunctions and the strong couplings
are presented in this section. For a better analysis, a comparison is made between
our estimations and the results of other methods.
II The AdS/QCD model involving pseudoscalar, vector and axial vector mesons
In this section we introduced our model in dimensions involving pseudoscalar, vector and axial vector mesons.
In this paper, the metric of 5 dimensional Anti-de Sitter space is chosen in Poincare coordinates as:
(1)
where . Moreover, is the usual Minkowski metric in 4 dimensions.
In hard-wall model, the radial coordinate varies in the range , where
the lower bound (with ) gives the asymptotic feature of QCD and the
IR cut-off is used to simulate QCD confinement.
We will consider the 5D action proposed in Ref Erlich2005 . In this
action the gauge fields , and a scalar field correspond to
5D fields for current operators and
from 4D theory, respectively. In definition, is quark field and
are the left handed (L) and the right handed (R) quarks. Moreover,
(with ) are the generators of the
SU group which are related to the Gell-Mann matrices by
.
In this paper, we take and the 5D action with
SU(4) SU(4)R symmetry can be written as
(2)
where is the
covariant derivative of the scalar field . In addition, the strength of the
non-Abelian and fields are defined as
(3)
with and .
The left and right hand gauge fields can also be written in terms of
the vector (V) and the axial vector field , in the form and .
The scalar field X can be expanded as
(4)
where is the classical part and contains the
fluctuations. With flavor symmetry, is a multiple of the unit matrix and can be obtained.
This choice for the scalar field is used in
Shock2006 with , and
flavor symmetry is assumed to estimate
masses and decay constants for the light and strange mesons. Their model predicts
good results for the more excited strange mesons observables.
In Katz2007 the part
of the action that mixes the axial vectors with the pseudoscalars is just considered and the U problem is studied.
All parameters in the mentioned model can be determined by the experimental
masses of the , and mesons,
and the pion decay constant .
In general , using equation of motions and turning off all fields except , one obtains
(5)
where and are the quark-mass and the
quark condensates matrices, respectively. For we take
and .
Moreover in Eq. (5), is the normalization
parameter introduced in Ref. Cherman2009 . Note that for the light-quark sectors in the SU isospin
symmetry, and are assumed in Abidin2009 ; Bayona2017 .
Eq. (5) is used in Refs. Colangelo2008 ; Abidin2009 ; Maru2009 ; Huseynova2019
and in this paper we shall use it.
III Wave functions, masses and the decay constants for the pseudoscalar, vector and axial vector mesons
Expanding the action in Eq. (2) up to second order in
vector (V), axial vector (A) and pseudoscalar field , we obtain
(6)
where we have defined:
(7)
Using
(8)
the values reported in Table. 1, are obtained for and .
Table 1: The values of and with
for
Now we are ready to derive equation of the motion for the vector, axial vector and pseudoscalar fields.
III.1 Wave functions
In this subsection we study wave functions of vector, axial vector and pseudoscalar mesons. We start with the vector field,
which satisfies the following equation of motion
(9)
Where .
For the transverse part, choosing ,
the following result is obtained:
(10)
Here, is the Fourier variable conjugate to the 4 dimensional
coordinates, .
The transverse part of the vector
field can be written as where
and are boundary
values at UV and bulk-to- boundary
propagator, respectively. satisfies the same
equation as with the boundary conditions
and .
The longitudinal parts of the vector field, defined as ,
and , are coupled as follows:
(11)
(12)
where the boundary conditions
are , and
.
In general form of differential
equations Eqs. (10, 11),
, and can be solved numerically.
We expect that, normalizable
modes of Eq. (10) describe the vector mesons while,
Eqs. (11) and (12) are utilized to study the scalar ones.
In this, paper the scalar mesons are not considered.
To obtain the wave functions of the axial vector and pseudoscalar mesons,
the variation over the axial vector field () of Eq. (6), is taken.
The transverse part of the axial vector field satisfies the following equation of motion:
(13)
where . Moreover, the gauge choices
and are imposed
in the Fourier transform. Note that is used to separate
the
transverse and
longitudinal parts of the axial vector field.
The transverse part , can be written as
.
To obtain , we set for the UV boundary
and for the IR boundary we choose Neumann boundary condition .
This part describes the axial vector states.
The longitudinal part of the
axial-vector field and the describe the pseudoscalar fields and
satisfy the following
equations
(14)
(15)
where the boundary
conditions are , , and
.
We finish this subsection by writing the SU(4) vector , axial vector and pseudoscalar
meson matrices terms of the
charged states as:
It should be noted that and are not physical states.
The physical states of and mesons are
related to these states in terms of a mixing angle as follows:
(17)
The
mixing angle can be determined by the experimental data.
There are various approaches to estimate the mixing angle. The
result was found in Ref.
Burakovsky , while two possible solutions with
and were obtained in Ref.
Suzuki .
III.2 Decay constants
To evaluate the decay constant of the vector mesons in the above mentioned model, the
two- point functions are needed. According to AdS/QCD correspondence, two-point functions can be calculated
by evaluating the action, Eq. (6)
with the classical solution and taking the functional
derivative over twice as:
(18)
In the LHS of Eq. (18), we insert one complete set
intermediate states with the same quantum numbers as the meson currents,
and use the vector mesons decay constants definition as:
(19)
where and are the decay constant and the
polarization vector for vector meson , respectively.
After performing the Fourier transformation
(20)
is obtained.
Where is transverse projector.
In the RHS of Eq. (18),
contains two vector mesons and can be obtained by inserting the solution for
back into the action. After applying Fourier transformation, in the final result,
only the contribution of the surface term at remains as:
(21)
On the other hand, using Green’s function formalism
to solve Eq. (10), the bulk-to-boundary propagator can be
written
as a sum over
vector mesons poles:
(22)
where boundary conditions for the vector meson’s wave function
are and . Moreover
the normalization condition is .
Using Eqs. (18-22), the decay constant of the mode of the vector
meson is obtained as:
(23)
For the axial vector and the pseudoscalar states, the decay constants are defined as:
(24)
(25)
To evaluate the decay constants of the
vector mesons and the pseudoscalar ones, the following Green’s functions are used:
(26)
where for the the boundary conditions are similar to . For the
pseudoscalar meson’s wave functions, and
are the boundary conditions. The similar method
is used to calculate the vector mesons decay constants, the following results
can be obtained for the axial vector mesons and the pseudoscalar states decay constant, respectively:
(27)
(28)
IV Strong coupling constants from three and four point functions
In this section, we study the triplet and quadratic vertices including
charm, vector, axial vector and pseudoscalar mesons.
The corresponding diagrams for triplet vertices are given in
Fig. 1. The vertices ,
, , ,
, , and
can be describe with diagram (a) while diagram (b)
is used to explain , ,
,
, ,
, ,
and vertices. Finally, diagram (c)
shows , ,
and vertices.
Figure 1: 3-particle diagrams show , and
vertices.
Moreover, diagrams including 4 particles which are considered in this paper are displaced in Fig (2).
, ,
, ,
and vertices can be explained via diagram (a).
Diagram (b) describes and
vertices while, ,
, ,
, and
vertices are explained via diagram (c).
Figure 2: 4-particle diagrams show and
vertices.
In the following two subsections the strong couplings of , ,
and vertices are derived.
IV.1 3-point functions and charm meson couplings
In this section the , , , ,
and vertices couplings are derived.
In our notation we use ,
,
and for charm, axial vector, vector and pseudoscalar mesons, respectively.
In this paper, the following definitions:
(29)
with , are used for the , , , ,
and
couplings Aliev1997 ; Belyaev1995 ; Bracco2012 .
Where as emphasized in Eqs. (19) and (24), denotes the polarization vector
of the vector meson and while is used for axial vector mesons and .
To obtain these strong coupling
constants, we start with the
correlation function including the currents of 3 considered particles. In AdS/QCD approach
these 3-point functions
can be obtained by functionally differentiating
the -D action with respect to their sources,
which are taken to be boundary values of the -D fields
that have the correct quantum numbers as Witten1998 ; Gubser1998 ; Grigoryan2007 ; Abidin2008
(30)
(31)
(32)
(33)
(34)
(35)
where is the relevant part of the -D action for vertex.
To make a relation between the correlation functions and their corresponding
vertexes, we insert three complete sets of intermediate states with
the same quantum numbers as the meson currents into the correlation function. In the next step,
the matrix elements are defined in Eqs. (19), (24) and
(25) are used and the results can be obtained as:
where,
(36)
Moreover,
(37)
is defined for the matrix element. Moreover,
in the final result, the limit
is
taken for considered vertex.
Now the relevant actions for every 3-point function are needed. For example,
to obtain , we need to separate two pseudoscalar fields (for mesons),
and one axial vector field (for meson) from three point action or for ,
we need a vector field, a pseudoscalar field and one axial vector one. The results are calculated as
(38)
(39)
(40)
(41)
(42)
(43)
where
(44)
(45)
In all of the actions obtained here, the terms come from the gauge part
and the terms containing , , and are from the chiral
part of the original action. The values of are given in Mahmoud2013
and for , and the values which are used in numerical
part of this paper,
are collected in Appendix.
It should be noted that in , and , the left hand gauge field term; ()
cancels the contribution of the right hand ones; (); and in the final result,
the gauge part has no contribution.
Going to Fourier transform space and using the relations Grigoryan20072 ; Abidin20083 :
(46)
(47)
(48)
the strong couplings are obtained as:
(49)
(50)
(51)
(52)
(53)
(54)
where the parameters and are defined as
(55)
Note
that and are dimensionless but the units of and are
( or in the units of ).
So, ,
and and are in units and other couplings are dimensionless.
IV.2 4-point functions and charm meson couplings
In this subsection we consider , , and
vertices.
To obtain these vertexes couplings, we start with the following 4-point functions:
(56)
(57)
(58)
(59)
where vertex is described by the part of the total action.
In this paper, the couplings
, , and
couplings are defined as:
(60)
(61)
(62)
(63)
with .
To obtain considered quartic vertices we insert four intermediate states in to the correlation functions given in
Eqs. (56-59), and then using the definitions given in Eqs.
(19), (24) and
(25), we obtain:
where
(64)
For matrix element
the following definition is used:
(65)
and the limit
is
applied in the final result.
Now we need to obtain the relevant action for every correlation function. The results are obtained as:
(66)
(67)
(68)
(69)
with
(70)
where can be written in terms of structure constant as
. The values of
, , and used in this paper
are presented in Appendix. Using Eqs. (46, 47) and (48),
and then by functional derivation according to
Eqs. (56- 59), the final results for ,
,
and couplings are obtained as:
(71)
(72)
(73)
(74)
where
(75)
Here, the strong couplings of and vertices are in the units
of while and are dimensionless.
V Numerical analysis
In this section, our numerical analysis is presented for the strong
coupling constants and , ,
, , ,
,
,
and .
In the first step of numerical analysis we must determine the values of , and
for using experimental values of the masses.
The values of the experimental masses are utilized to fit , quark masses and
quark condensates are presented in Table 2.
Table 2: The experimental values of mass are used to fit ,
and . These values are taken from pdg .
Meson
Mass (MeV)
Meson
Mass (MeV)
Meson
Mass (MeV)
To evaluate ,
the observable which
does not depend on any other parameter is used. For this purpose, we can use the vector mesons with
. Our choice in this part is the mass of the meson which gives us
.
After estimating , we use the masses of the light mesons , ,
and to fit ).
In addition, are determined using the experimental masses of
the strange states
and . Finally, the experimental values of and
are utilized to find fitted values of .
Numerically,
the best global fit for the parameters in are
obtained as: , , and
. Moreover, for the quark condensates in
the best global fit values are , ,
and
.
Having all of these parameters in hand, we can estimate the pseudoscalar, vector and axial
vector meson masses. Table 3 includes our predictions and the experimental
values of the mesons which are given taken from pdg ; pdg2 .
As it can be seen from the masses reported in Table 3,
the uncertainty for and meson masses are lower than the those for the others.
For these two vector mesons, the uncertainties comes from parameter, while for the other
mesons, the quark masses and quark condensates are also included in the lower and higher
bounds of the masses. The mass of the state is estimated using sum rules in Kwei as
while, our analysis predicts .
Table 3: Global fit to meson’s masses as well as the experimental
values are reported in pdg ; pdg2 .
Meson
Mass (MeV)
This work (MeV)
Meson
Mass (MeV)
This work (MeV)
Our prediction for the decay constants of some mesons are presented in Table 4.
The experimental measurements of the considered decay constants are also given in this table.
The measured
values for and are averages from
lattice QCD results, taken from Ref. pdg . The decay constants of and
mesons are taken from Donoghue2014 and Isgur1989 , respectively.
The other measured values are taken
from experimental data.
Table 4: Our predictions
for the decay constants of nine selected mesons. The measured
value are taken from pdg ; Donoghue2014 ; Isgur1989
Observable
Measured (MeV)
This work (MeV)
Observable
Measured (MeV)
This work (MeV)
Observable
This work (MeV)
It should be noted that in our model, there are no differences between the mass and decay constants
of and . In addition, the mass and the decay constants of
and are similar to the values obtained for
and , respectively.
Now the wave functions for the studied mesons can be evaluated.
The wave functions , , and
as functions of are plotted in Fig. 3 for .
Here, and are selected from the light mesons while, from the strange mesons
we plot the wave functions for and . Moreover, from the charm mesons group the plots are drawn
for and states and the mesons
and () are chosen from the charmed-strange and states, respectively.
In this figure for the light, strange,
charm, charm-strange
and mesons, the plots are
displaced
with short-dot, short- dash, dot, dash and dash- dotted lines, respectively.
For the valuse of the masses, taken
from the experimental data are reported in Table 2
while, for the other ground state mesons, the masses are taken form our predictions
given
in Table 3.
Figure 3: Plots of the wave functions , , and
for ,
and
as functions of the radial coordinate in the interval .
It should be noted that, since the values of are close to those of ,
and the masses of and have almost no differences, the plot of
is similar to the . Similarities of plots of , , , and
are similar to those obtained for , , , and , respectively.
For this reason, in Fig. 3 just one of these two choices are displaced.
Now we move to 3-particle states couplings defined in Eqs.
(49- 54). In this paper, to evaluate charm meson couplings to the axial vector mesons,
the mass of is taken from PDG as pdg .
Moreover, for , the mass is taken from 3PSR prediction as
Kwei .
Our predictions for ,
, , and are reported in Tables 5 and 6.
Notice that the main uncertainty in the values of the couplings comes from
and the meson masses.
Table 5: Our predictions for the strong couplings of and vertices.
Table 6: Couplings for the , ,
and vertices.
)
To evaluate strong couplings for , the following relations are used:
(76)
(77)
(78)
(79)
where
(80)
The dependence of the strong coupling constants and
for and are displaced in Fig. 4 with solid and dash lines, respectively.
The uncertainty regions are also displayed in this figure.
Figure 4: The strong coupling constants and
for as a function of the mixing
angle as well as the uncertainty regions.
Charm meson couplings to the vector, axial vector and the pseudoscalar mesons are evaluated
via different approaches. Table 7, shows the values
of the strong couplings calculated via LCSR
momeni2020 ; Wanglscr2007 and 3PSR Bracco2010 ; Kim2001 as well as our predictions.
Table 7: The charm meson strong couplings in various theoretical approaches. Here, ,
and are in the unit .
Now, we consider the strong couplings for quadratic vertices. The values of
and are listed in Tables 8 and 9. The reported values of
are at .
The strong couplings
, and
are plotted as functions of in Fig. 5.
The values of are ,
and for ,
and
vertices, respectively.
Table 8: Our predictions for the couplings of ,
and vertices.
The values of couplings are reported at .
Table 9: Couplings for the , ,
and vertices.
Figure 5: The strong couplings of , and
as well as their uncertainly regions on .
To evaluate the couplings of ,
,
and vertices,
we use the relations similar to those used in Eqs. (76) and (77).
These couplings and their uncertainly regions
are plotted as functions of the mixing angle in Fig 6. Our numeric analyze show that the main sources of
uncertainties in the four particles vertices are and .
Figure 6: The dependence of the strong coupling constants and
for .
In summary in this paper the two
flavor hard-wall holographic
model introduced in Erlich2005 is extended to four
flavors. Our model consists of nine parameters including the hard wall position , quark masses and
quark condensates with . These
parameters are fitted to the experimental masses of
, , ,
,
, , and mesons.
The masses and decay constants of some pseudoscalar, vector and axial vector mesons are
evaluated using our model and a comparison is made between our predictions
and the experimental data for these observables.
After analyzing the wave functions, the strong couplings of
, , ,
and are
analyzed. For the strong couplings are plotted as functions
of the mixing angle . Moreover, for three mesons vertices a comparison is also made between our
predictions and estimations made by other theoretical approaches.
Appendix A values for , , , ,
, and
In this appendix, we present the nonzero values for ,
, , , , and .
The values results of the factors appeared in 3-point functions which are used in numerical analyze
are given in Table 11.
Table 10: The values of ,
, and which are used in numerical analyze.
Table 11: The values of ,
, and which are used in numerical analyze.
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