First study of ηc\eta_c, η(1760)\eta(1760) and X(1835)X(1835) production via ηπ+π\eta^\prime\pi^+\pi^- final states in two-photon collisions

Collaboration
Jun, 2012
13 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 86 (2012) 052002
e-Print:
Report number:
  • BELLE-PREPRINT-2010-17,
  • KEK-PREPRINT-2010-26
Experiments:

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Abstract: (arXiv)
The invariant mass spectrum of the \eta' \pi^+ \pi^- final state produced in two-photon collisions is obtained using a 673 fb^{-1} data sample collected in the vicinity of the \Upsilon(4S) resonance with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy e^+e^- collider. We observe a clear signal of the \eta_c and measure its mass and width to be M(\eta_c)=(2982.7 +- 1.8(stat) +- 2.2(syst) +- 0.3(model)) MeV/c^2 and \Gamma(\eta_c) = (37.8^{+5.8}_{-5.3}(stat) +- 2.8(syst) +- 1.4(model)) MeV/c^2. The third error is an uncertainty due to possible interference between the \eta_c and a non-resonant component. We also report the first evidence for \eta(1760) decay to \eta' \pi^+ \pi^-; we find two solutions for its parameters, depending on the inclusion or not of the X(1835), whose existence is of marginal significance in our data. From a fit to the mass spectrum using coherent X(1835) and \eta(1760) resonant amplitudes, we set a 90% confidence level upper limit on the product \Gamma_{\gamma\gamma} \BR (\eta' \pi^+ \pi^-) for the X(1835).
Note:
  • 13 pages, 7 figures, submitted to PRD
  • 13.20.Gd
  • 13.25.Gv
  • 12.40.Yx
  • 12.38.Qk
  • photon photon: interaction
  • eta(1760): hadronic decay
  • mass spectrum: (eta(958) pi+ pi-)
  • exchange: two-photon
  • BELLE
  • KEK-B