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Phys. Rev. Lett. 34, 43–45 (1975)

Heavy Quarks and e+e- Annihilation

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Thomas Appelquist* and H. David Politzer
Lyman Laboratory of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138

Received 19 November 1974; published in the issue dated 6 January 1975

The effects of new, heavy quarks are examined in a colored quark-gluon model. The e+e- total cross section scales for energies far above any quark mass. However, it is much greater than the scaling prediction in a domain about the nominal two-heavy-quark threshold, despite σe+e- being a weak-coupling problem above 2 GeV. We expect spikes at the low end of this domain and a broad enhancement at the upper end.

© 1975 The American Physical Society

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.34.43
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.34.43
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*Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow.

Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows.

See Also

Comment: Howard J. Schnitzer, p States of Charmonium and the Forces that Confine Quarks, Phys. Rev. Lett. 35, 1540 (1975).

Comment: G. Feinberg and J. Sucher, Relativistic Calculation of Radiative M1 Transitions in Charmonium, Phys. Rev. Lett. 35, 1740 (1975).