Abstract
AbstractThe $$\eta ^{(\prime )}$$
η
(
′
)
-mesons in the quark-flavor basis are mixtures of two mesonic states $$|\eta _{q}\rangle =|{\bar{u}} u+{\bar{d}} d\rangle /\sqrt{2}$$
|
η
q
⟩
=
|
u
¯
u
+
d
¯
d
⟩
/
2
and $$|\eta _{s}\rangle =|{\bar{s}} s\rangle .$$
|
η
s
⟩
=
|
s
¯
s
⟩
.
In previous work, we have made a detailed study on the $$\eta _{s}$$
η
s
leading-twist distribution amplitude by using the $$D^+_s$$
D
s
+
meson semileptonic decays. As a sequential work, in the present paper, we fix the $$\eta _q$$
η
q
leading-twist distribution amplitude by using the light-cone harmonic oscillator model for its wave function and by using the QCD sum rules within the QCD background field to calculate its moments. The input parameters of $$\eta _q$$
η
q
leading-twist distribution amplitude $$\phi _{2;\eta _q}$$
ϕ
2
;
η
q
at the initial scale $$\mu _0\sim 1$$
μ
0
∼
1
GeV are fixed by using those moments. The QCD sum rules for the $$0_{\textrm{th}}$$
0
th
-order moment can also be used to fix the magnitude of $$\eta _q$$
η
q
decay constant, giving $$f_{\eta _q}=0.141\pm 0.005$$
f
η
q
=
0.141
±
0.005
GeV. As an application of $$\phi _{2;\eta _q},$$
ϕ
2
;
η
q
,
we calculate the transition form factors $$B(D)^+ \rightarrow \eta ^{(\prime )}$$
B
(
D
)
+
→
η
(
′
)
by using the QCD light-cone sum rules up to twist-4 accuracy and by including the next-to-leading order QCD corrections to the leading-twist part, and then fix the related CKM matrix element and the decay width for the semi-leptonic decays $$B(D)^+ \rightarrow \eta ^{(\prime )}\ell ^+ \nu _\ell .$$
B
(
D
)
+
→
η
(
′
)
ℓ
+
ν
ℓ
.
Funder
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC