Probing scalar mesons in semi-leptonic decays of $D_s^{+}$, $D^{+}$ and $D^0$

Abstract

With the primary motivation of probing the quark substructure of scalar mesons, a generalized linear sigma model for the lowest and the next-to-lowest scalar and pseudoscalar mesons is employed to investigate several semi-leptonic decays of $D$ mesons. The free parameters of the model (in its leading approximation) have been previously determined from fits to mass spectra and various low-energy parameters. With these fixed parameters, the model has already given encouraging predictions for different low-energy decays and scattering, as well as for semileptonic decay channels of $D_s^{+}$ that include a scalar meson in the final state. In the present work, we apply the same model (in its leading order with the same fixed parameters) to different semi-leptonic decay channels of $D_s^{+}$, $D^{+}$ and $D^0$ and thereby further test the model and its predictions for the quark substructure of scalar mesons. We find that these predictions are in reasonable agreement with experiment.

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