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Observation of ηc(1S) and ηc(2S) decays to K+K- π+π-π0 in two-photon interactions

Description

We study the processes γγ → KS0K±π± and γγ → K+K-π+π-π0 using a data sample of 519.2 fb-1 recorded by the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy e+e- collider at center-of-mass energies near the Υ(nS) (n = 2, 3, 4) resonances. We observe the ηc(1S), χc0(1P), χc2(1P), and ηc(2S) resonances produced in two-photon interactions and decaying to K+K-π+π-π0, with significances of 18.1, 5.7, 5.2, and 5.3 standard deviations (including systematic errors), respectively. We measure the ηc(2S) mass and width in KS0K±π± decays, m(ηc(2S)) = 3638.5 ± 1.5 ± 0.8 MeV/c2 and Λ(ηc(2S)) = 13.4 ± 4.6 ± 3.2 MeV, where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second is systematic. We search for the Z(3930) resonance and find no significant signal. We also provide the two-photon width times branching fraction values for the observed resonances.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://www.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-wrap/getdoc/slac-pub-14406.pdf; http://www.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-wrap/pubpage?slac-pub-14406.html; PURL: https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1014119-gw6ufT/

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Publishing Information

Imprint Pagination
9 p.
Report number
SLAC-PUB--14406

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
42061276
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Non-conventional Literature
Descriptors DEI
BRANCHING RATIO; ETA MESONS; KAONS MINUS; KAONS PLUS; PARTICLE DECAY; PHOTON-PHOTON INTERACTIONS; PIONS MINUS; PIONS NEUTRAL; PIONS PLUS; RESONANCE
Descriptors DEC
BASIC INTERACTIONS; BOSONS; DECAY; DIMENSIONLESS NUMBERS; ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERACTIONS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; HADRONS; INTERACTIONS; KAONS; MESONS; PARTICLE INTERACTIONS; PIONS; PSEUDOSCALAR MESONS; STRANGE MESONS; STRANGE PARTICLES

Optional Information

Contract/Grant/Project number
AC02-76SF00515
Notes
Submitted to Physical Review D
Funding organization
US Department of Energy (United States)