Relativistic effects in decay of S-wave quarkoniums

The width of S-wave quarkonium decays (_c, _b ; and J/, Y e⁺e^–) are calculated using the quasipotential approach. The nontrivial dependence of decay amplitude on relative quark momentum is considered. It is shown that relativistic corrections reach values of 30–50% in the processes studied.Samara State University. Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 5, pp. 46–53, May, 1995.