Key points are not available for this paper at this time.
A comprehensive treatment of the charmonium model of the family is presented. The model's basic assumption is a flavor-symmetric instantaneous effective interaction between quark color densities. This interaction describes both quark-antiquark binding and pair creation, and thereby provides a unified approach for energies below and above the threshold for charmed-meson production. If coupling to decay channels is ignored, one obtains the "naive" model wherein the dynamics is completely described by a single charmed-quark pair. A detailed description of this "naive" model is presented for the case where the instantaneous potential is a superposition of a linear and Coulombic term. A far more realistic picture is attained by incorporating those terms in the interaction that couple charmed quarks to light quarks. The coupled-channel formalism needed for this purpose is fully described. Formulas are given for the inclusive e^+e^- cross section and for e^+e^- annihilation into specific charmed-meson pairs. The influence of closed decay channels on states below charm threshold is investigated, with particular attention to leptonic and radiative widths.
Eichten et al. (Thu,) studied this question.
Synapse has enriched 5 closely related papers on similar clinical questions. Consider them for comparative context: