Decay Widths of Excited Heavy Mesons from Quantum ChromodynamicsSum Rules in the Infinite Mass Limit

The widths for pionic decays of the lowest two excited doublets (0⁺, 1⁺) and (1⁺, 2⁺) of heavy mesons are studied with quantum Chromodynamics sum rules in the heavy quark effective theory. The interpolating currents used allow us to distinguish the two 1⁺ states without contamination in the infinite mass limit. The soft pion approximation is not used in the calculations.