Download or read book Excited Charm Mesons in Semileptonic B Decay and Their Contributions to a Bjorken Sum Rule written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has recently been shown that hadrons containing a single heavy quark exhibit a new flavor-spin symmetry of QCD. We exploit this symmetry to obtain model independent predictions for the fourteen form factors in weak decays from the ground state pseudoscalar meson P(sub)Q(sub)i of a heavy quark Q(sub)i to the low-lying positive parity excited states of a heavy quark Q(sub)j in terms of two universal functions of momentum transfer. These predictions are of interest in the study of B -> D*(sub)2(2460), D(sub)1(~2460), D(sub)1(2420), and D*(sub)0(~2420) semileptonic decays. We also discuss the connection between these results and the slope of the function Xi (which determines the B->D and B->D* transition form factors) given by a heavy quark sum rule suggested by Bjorken.