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Exclusive semileptonic decays of D and Ds mesons in the covariant confining quark model

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Recently, the BESIII collaboration has reported numerous measurements of various D(s) meson semileptonic decays with significantly improved precision. Together with similar studies carried out at BABAR, Belle, and CLEO, new windows to a better understanding of weak and strong interactions in the charm sector have been opened. In light of new experimental data, we review the theoretical description and predictions for the semileptonic decays of D(s) to a pseudoscalar or a vector meson. This review is essentially an extended discussion of our recently published results obtained in the framework of the covariant confining quark model.

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Acknowledgements

P. S. acknowledges support from Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, I. S. QFT_HEP. J. N. P. acknowledges financial support from University Grants Commission of India under Major Research Project F.No. 42-775/2013(SR). M. A. I., J. G. K., and C. T. T. acknowledge support from Heisenberg-Landau Grant for their collaboration. M. A. I. acknowledges financial support from PRISMA Cluster of Excellence at Mainz University. N. R. S. thanks Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physics (JINR) for warm hospitality during Helmholtz-DIAS International Summer School “Quantum Field Theory at the Limits: from Strong Field to Heavy Quarks” where this work was initiated. C. T. T. thanks Nguyet Le for her permanent support. The authors thank Hai-Bo Li for the invitation to write the review.

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Ivanov, M.A., Körner, J.G., Pandya, J.N. et al. Exclusive semileptonic decays of D and Ds mesons in the covariant confining quark model. Front. Phys. 14, 64401 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11467-019-0908-1

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