Published November 25, 2011 | Version v1
Journal article

Search for Hadronic Decays of a Light Higgs Boson in the Radiative Decay Υ→γA0

  • 1. Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules (LAPP), Universite de Savoie, CNRS/IN2P3,F-74941 Annecy-Le-Vieux (France)
  • 2. Universitat de Barcelona, Facultat de Fisica, Departament ECM, E-08028 Barcelona (Spain)
  • 3. Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita di Bari, I-70126 Bari (Italy)
  • 4. INFN Sezione di Bari, I-70126 Bari (Italy)
  • 5. University of Bergen, Institute of Physics, N-5007 Bergen (Norway)
  • 6. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 (United States)
  • 7. Ruhr Universitaet Bochum, Institut fuer Experimentalphysik 1, D-44780 Bochum (Germany)
  • 8. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z1 (Canada)

Description

We search for hadronic decays of a light Higgs boson (A0) produced in radiative decays of an Υ(2S) or Υ(3S) meson, Υ→γA0. The data have been recorded by the BABAR experiment at the Υ(3S) and Υ(2S) center-of-mass energies and include (121.3±1.2)x106 Υ(3S) and (98.3±0.9)x106 Υ(2S) mesons. No significant signal is observed. We set 90% confidence level upper limits on the product branching fractions B(Υ(nS)→γA0)B(A0→hadrons) (n=2 or 3) that range from 1x10-6 for an A0 mass of 0.3 GeV/c2 to 8x10-5 at 7 GeV/c2.

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review Letters
Journal Volume
107
Journal Issue
22
Journal Page Range
p. 221803-221803.7
ISSN
0031-9007
CODEN
PRLTAO

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
43083897
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
BRANCHING RATIO; CENTER-OF-MASS SYSTEM; HADRONIC PARTICLE DECAY; HIGGS BOSONS; MESONS; RADIATIVE DECAY
Descriptors DEC
BOSONS; DECAY; DIMENSIONLESS NUMBERS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; HADRONS; PARTICLE DECAY; POSTULATED PARTICLES

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Notes
(c) 2011 American Institute of Physics
Collaborations
BABAR Collaboration