Published September 1, 1986 | Version v1
Journal article

Angular correlations in the phiphi system and evidence for hadronic etasub(c) production

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The paper describes a study of angular correlations in the phiphi system produced in the reaction π-Be->phiphi+X at 85 GeV/c. A sample of 33851 candidate phiphi events with phiphi mass less than 3.2 GeV/c2 was obtained in an experiment using the OMEGA spectrometer at CERN with a 4-kaon trigger. Moments of the decay angular distributions are presented as a function of phiphi mass over the range 2.0 to 3.2 GeV/c2. The distributions in the mass interval 2.0-2.5 GeV/c2 are best fitted by a dominance of Jsup(P)=2+. A signal in the H(222200) moment in the mass interval 2.9-3.0 GeV/c2 is interpreted as due to etasub(c)->phiphi and yields a value for (cross section) x (branching ratio) = 14.1+-6.3 nb/nucleon. (orig.)

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Journal Title
Nucl. Phys. B, Part. Phys.
Journal Volume
273
Journal Issue
3/4
Series
Nucl. Phys. B, Part. Phys.
Journal Page Range
689-702
ISSN
0550-3213
CODEN
NUPBB