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Vikas Patel

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A Unified Study of Hidden-Charm and Hidden-Bottom Mesons

We present a unified phenomenological analysis of hidden-charm and hidden-bottom mesons, treating the \(c\bar c\) and \(b\bar b\) sectors within a common screened-potential and QCD sum-rule framework. The mass spectra are obtained from a screened Coulomb-plus-confining interaction with spin-dependent corrections, while the short-distance decay constants, annihilation widths and electromagnetic transition form factors are organized through two-point and three-point QCD sum rules. The same calculated states are then used to study E1 and M1 radiative transitions, Regge trajectories and finite-spectrum thermodynamic observables constructed from excitation energies relative to the corresponding ground states. The results are discussed together rather than as disconnected outputs: the mass spectra determine the state assignments, the Regge plots test the global level ordering, the radiative widths probe orbital and spin-flip overlap integrals, and the QCD sum-rule quantities connect the spectrum to current-coupled observables. The comparison of the two hidden-flavour sectors shows the expected compression and stronger spin suppression in bottomonium, while charmonium remains more sensitive to fine-structure, radial-node and medium-related effects. The resulting picture provides a coherent vacuum benchmark for \(c\bar c\) and \(b\bar b\) spectroscopy, radiative transitions and QCD sum-rule observables.

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A unified study of the \(B_c\) meson: from spectrum and form factors to weak and radiative decays

The $B_c$ meson constitutes a unique system for investigating heavy-hadron dynamics, since it exhibits quarkonium-like bound-state structure while decaying predominantly through weak interactions. In this work, we present a unified study of $B_c$-meson spectroscopy, decay constants, weak decays, radiative transitions, and Regge trajectories within a single framework. The mass spectrum is computed in a screened potential model including relativistic kinetic-energy corrections and spin-dependent interactions, from which we obtain both spin-averaged and spin-resolved states together with the corresponding pseudoscalar and vector decay constants. Using these spectroscopic inputs, we then analyze weak decays within a mass-updated three-point QCD sum-rule framework for transitions to $S$-, $P$-, and $D$-wave charmonium states, as well as to final states containing charmonium and $D^{(*)}_{(s)}$ mesons. In this part of the analysis, the hadronic thresholds, Borel-window prescriptions, Lorentz decompositions, and decay-width expressions of the underlying sum-rule formulations are retained, while the heavy-quark masses are updated to $m_c=1.48~\mathrm{GeV}$ and $m_b=4.90~\mathrm{GeV}$, leading to a controlled refit of the overall normalization rather than a full rederivation of all perturbative and condensate contributions. We further investigate purely leptonic decay widths and radiative $E1$ and $M1$ transitions, and examine the Regge behavior of the resulting spectrum. The present study therefore provides a coherent description of the $B_c$ meson in which the spectroscopic wave functions determine the short-distance couplings that enter both weak and electromagnetic observables, while the Regge analysis serves as a complementary global consistency test of the same dynamical picture.

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Spectroscopic Properties of $\mathit {B}$ and $\mathit {B_s}$ meson using Screened Potential

Inspired by the recent observations of $B$ and $B_s$ meson states at LHCb\cite{Aaij:2020hcw} we calculate the masses of ground, orbitally, and radially excited states. Also, we estimate the mixing parameters, decay constant, leptonic decay width, and corresponding branching ratios, as well as electromagnetic transition widths. ${\cal{O}}\left(\frac{1}{m}\right)$ and ${\cal{O}}(p^{10})$ relativistic corrections to potential and kinetic energy terms have been added to the Hamiltonian. The screening potential employed is solved by applying the gaussian wave function. The estimated masses are used to construct the Regge trajectories, which help us in the association of some newly observed states to $B$ and $B_s$ meson family. Overall, the results from the present study are in fair agreement with available experimental and theoretical studies.

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