In this thesis, a method for calculating the decay rates and branching ratios using perturbative QCD and QED is proposed. Among the assumptions used are that heavy mesons are non-relativistic quark/anti-quark bound states and that light mesons can be treated as quarks in a bag. The method will be applied to the $ eta sb{c} to phi phi$ decay and to 1-loop contributions to the leptonic widths of mesons.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.56669 |
| Date | January 1992 |
| Creators | Phipps, Martin |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Science (Department of Physics.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001312347, proquestno: AAIMM80446, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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