Amplitude zeros in radiative decays of scalar particles
Journal
Physical Review D
Journal Volume
51
Journal Issue
5
Pages
2295-2301
Date Issued
1995
Author(s)
Abstract
We study amplitude zeros in radiative decay processes with a photon or a gluon emission of all possible scalar particles (e.g., scalar leptoquarks) which may interact with the usual fermions in models beyond the standard model. For the decays with a photon emission, the amplitudes clearly exhibit the factorization property and the differential decay rates vanish at specific values of a certain variable which are determined only by the electric charges of the particles involved and independent of the particle masses and the various couplings. For the decays with a gluon emission, even though the zeros are washed away, the differential decay rates still have distinct minima. The branching ratios as a function of leptoquark masses are presented for the scalar leptoquark decays. We also comment on the decays of vector particles into two fermions and a photon.
Type
journal article