Mesons with Beauty and Charm: Spectroscopy

Abstract

Applying knowledge of the interaction between heavy quarks derived from the study of $c\overline{c}$ and $b\overline{b}$ bound states, we calculate the spectrum of $c\overline{b}$ mesons. We compute transition rates for the electromagnetic and hadronic cascades that lead from excited states to the ${}^1{\text{S}}_0$ ground state, and briefly consider the prospects for experimental observation of the spectrum.

Comments: 32 pages + 2 uuencoded PostScript figures Fermilab-Pub-94/032-T