Published November 1, 2005 | Version v1
Journal article

Search for narrow resonances below the Υ mesons

  • 1. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510 (United States)
  • 2. Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Frascati (Italy)
  • 3. Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720 (United States)
  • 4. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, University and Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, I-56100 Pisa (Italy)
  • 5. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Universita di Padova, Sezione di Padoova, I-35131, Padova (Italy)
  • 6. Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 (United States)

Description

We have investigated the invariant mass spectrum of dimuons collected by the CDF experiment during the 1992-1995 run of the Fermilab Tevatron collider to improve the limit on the existence of narrow resonances set by the experiments at the SPEAR e+e- collider. In the mass range 6.3-9.0 GeV/c2, we derive 90% upper credible limits to the ratio of the production cross section times muonic branching fraction of possible narrow resonances to that of the Υ(1S) meson. In this mass range, the average limit varies from 1.7 to 0.5%. This limit is much worse at the mass of 7.2 GeV/c2 due to an excess of 250±61 events with a width consistent with the detector resolution

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Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
72
Journal Issue
9
Journal Page Range
p. 092003-092003.7
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

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(c) 2005 The American Physical Society