LEPTONIC DECAY OF HEAVY–LIGHT MESONS IN A QCD POTENTIAL MODEL

We study the masses and decay constants of heavy–light flavor mesons D, Ds, B and Bs in a QCD potential model. The mesonic wave function is used to compute the masses of D and B mesons in the ground state and the wave function is transformed to momentum space to estimate the pseudoscalar decay constants of these mesons. The leptonic decay widths and branching ratio of these mesons for different leptonic channels are also computed to compare with the experimental values. The results are found to be compatible with available data.

AN ANALYSIS OF THE ISGUR–WISE FUNCTION AND ITS DERIVATIVES WITHIN A HEAVY–LIGHT QCD QUARK MODEL

In determining the mesonic wave function from QCD inspired potential model, if the linear confinement term is taken as parent (with Coulombic term as perturbation), Airy's function appears in the resultant wave function — which is an infinite series. In the study of Isgur–Wise function (IWF) and its derivatives with such a wave function, the infinite upper limit of integration gives rise to divergence. In this paper, we have proposed some reasonable cutoff values for the upper limit of such integrations and studied the subsequent effect on the results. We have also studied the sensitivity of the order of polynomial approximation of the infinite Airy series in calculating the derivatives of IWF.