Two Photon Decays of Charmonia from Lattice QCD

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We make the first calculation in lattice QCD of two-photon decays of mesons. Working in the charmonium sector, using the LSZ reduction to relate a photon to a sum of hadronic vector eigenstates, we compute form-factors in both the space-like and time-like domains for the transitions $η_c \to γ^* γ^*$ and $χ_{c0} \to γ^* γ^*$. At the on-shell point we find approximate agreement with experimental world-average values.
Replaced with version to be published in PRL. Expanded discussion of possible systematic errors

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