Abstract
We assume that the newly discovered mesons and are nonrelativistic bound states of charmed quarks, and show that available data are consistent with this picture. We calculate the diffractive production of in the processes and , where is a proton or nucleus, and find a result which is different from the vector-meson-dominance prediction. We also calculate the reactions , where denotes the hypothetical particle with both charm and strangeness which is predicted by the SU(4) model. Our result appears to be compatible with the excess of events (compared to the parton model) seen in the inclusive reactions and .
- Received 21 April 1975
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.12.1376
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