Radiative leptonic decay of heavy quarkonia*

Abstract

Abstract In this study, the properties of heavy quarkonia X are examined by treating them as bound states of Q and at the leading-order level within the non-relativistic quantum chromodynamics (NRQCD) framework, where Q represents either a charm or bottom quark. The branching ratios for the radiative leptonic decays are revisited, and the angular and energy/momentum distributions of the final state particles are analyzed in the rest frame of X. Furthermore, we apply Lorentz transformations from the rest frame of X to the center-of-mass frame of to establish the connection between the widths and . The comparison of the connection to those documented in literature (divided by ) for various X states, such as , , , and , shows relative differences typically around or below 10%, comparable to the next-to-leading order corrections of and . However, we observe a significant disparity in the ratio between and , with our prediction being four times larger than those in literature. The outcomes derived from this study have practical implications in describing the quantum electrodynamics radiative processes and contribute to the investigation of QCD processes associated with the decays of heavy quarkonia and searches for new physics.