Recent results from Belle

New results on hadron physics from the Belle experiment are presentedComment: Proceedings for the HADRON 03 conferenc

Bottomonium states

Recent results on studies of bottomonium states at Belle are reported. The results are obtained with a 121.4 fb−1 data sample collected with the Belle detector in the vicinity of the Υ(5S) resonance at the KEKB asymmetricenergy e+e− collider

D_{s0}^+(2317) as an iso-triplet four-quark meson

Although assigning D_{s0}^+(2317) to the I_3=0 component of iso-triplet four-quark mesons is favored by experiments, its neutral and doubly charged partners have not yet been observed. It is discussed why they were not observed in inclusive e^+e^- annihilation experiments and that they can be observed in B decays.Comment: 3 pages, 5 figures, invited talk at QNP06, the 4th Int. Conf. on Quarks and Nuclear Physics, June 5 - 10, 2006, Madri

Bounding effective parameters in the chiral Lagrangian for excited heavy mesons

We use recent experimental data on charmed mesons to constrain three coupling constants in the effective lagrangian describing the interactions of excited heavy-light mesons with light pseudoscalar mesons at order $m_Q^{-1}$. Predictions in the beauty sector are also derived.Comment: LaTex, 11 pages, 1 eps figur

Measurement of sin2beta in tree-dominated B0-decays and ambiguity removal

The most recent results from the B-factories on the time-dependent CP asymmetries measured in B0-decays mediated by b --> c c(bar) s quark-transitions are reviewed. The Standard Model interpretation of the results in terms of the parameter sin2beta leads to a four-fold ambiguity on the unitarity triangle beta which can be reduced to a two-fold ambiguity by measuring the sign of the parameter cos2beta. The results on cos2beta obtained so far are reviewed.Comment: 6 pages, 3 postscript figues, contributed to the Proceedings of Beauty200

Mass of D*_sJ(2317) and Coupled Channel Effect

The resonance D*_sJ (2317) which is considered to be the 1^3P_0 state composed of charm and strange quarks has been discovered recently. The measured mass, which is about 160 MeV lower than the mass of the 1^3P_0 state obtained from the potential model calculation by Godfrey and Isgur, was considered surprisingly low and attracted a lot of theoretical investigations. We calculate the mass shift of the 1^3P_0 state by using the coupled channel e#ect. Our result shows that the coupled channel e#ect naturally explains the low mass of D*_sJ (2317)

New near-threshold mesons

We show that under a number of rather plausible assumptions QCD spectrum may contain a number of mesons which have not been predicted or observed. Such states will have the quantum numbers of two existing mesons and masses very close to the dissociation threshold into the two mesons. Moreover, at least one of the two mesonic constituents itself must be very close to its dissociation threshold. In particular, one might expect the existence of loosely bound systems of $D$ and \D; similarly, $K$ and \ff, $\bar{K}$ and \ff, $K$ and $\aa$ and $\bar{K}$ and $\aa$ can be bound. The mechanism for binding in these cases is the S-wave kaon exchange. The nearness of one of the constituents to its decay threshold into a kaon plus a remainder, implies that the range of the kaon exchange force becomes abnormally long--significantly longer than $1/m_K$ which greatly aids the binding.Comment: 5 page

Final-State Phases in B→B \to Baryon-Antibaryon Decays

The recent observation of the decay \ob \to \Lambda_c^+ \bar p suggests that related decays may soon be visible at $e^+ e^-$ colliders. It is shown how these decays can shed light on strong final-state phases and amplitudes involving the spectator quark, both of which are normally expected to be small in B decays.Comment: 14 pages, LaTeX, 2 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. D, references and discussion of helicity amplitudes adde