$E1$ and M1 radiative transitions involving heavy-light axial, pseudoscalar and vector quarkonia in the framework of Bethe-Salpeter equation

Abstract

This work is an extension of our previous work in \cite{bhatnagar20} to calculate M1 transitions, $0^{-+}\rightarrow 1^{--} \gamma$, and E1 transitions involving axial vector mesons such as, $1^{+-} \rightarrow 0^{-+}\gamma$, and $0^{-+}\rightarrow 1^{+-} \gamma $ for which very little data is available as of now. We make use of the general structure of the transition amplitude, $M_{fi}$ derived in our previous work \cite{bhatnagar20} as a linear superposition of terms involving all possible combinations of $++$, and $--$ components of Salpeter wave functions of final and initial hadrons. In the present work, we make use of leading Dirac structures in the hadronic Bethe-Salpeter wave functions of the involved hadrons, which makes the formulation more rigorous. We evaluate the decay widths for both the above mentioned $M1$ and $E1$ transitions. We have used algebraic forms of Salpeter wave functions obtained through analytic solutions of mass spectral equations for ground and excited states of $1^{--}$,$0^{-+}$ and $1^{+-}$ heavy-light quarkonia in approximate harmonic oscillator basis to do analytic calculations of their decay widths. We have compared our results with experimental data, where ever available, and other models.