Relating production and masses of the vector and P-wave mesons for light and heavy flavours al LEP

Abstract

The production rates of primary vector and P-wave mesons in Z hadronic decays are analysed. The mass dependence of production rates for the bottom, charm, strange charm and three families of the light-flavour mesons is found to be very similar, allowing to relate the relative production rates for mesons with different flavours and, possibly, their masses. The strange axial mesons K_1(1273) and K_1(1402) might be assigned to the 1^+(1/2) and 1^+(3/2) levels degenerate with the 0^+(1/2) and 2^+(3/2) levels of the K^*_0(1430) and K^*_2(1430), respectively, if the observed K^*_0(1430) mass is replaced by its ``bare'' q\bar{q} mass corresponding to the K-matrix pole and close to the K_1(1273) mass. Then the 0^+(1/2) and 1^+(1/2) levels are below the 1^+(3/2) and 2^+(3/2) levels for the strange, charm and bottom mesons.

Comments: Accepted by Phys. Lett. B