Measurement of exclusive Υ(1S)\Upsilon(1S) and Υ(2S)\Upsilon(2S) decays into Vector-Pseudoscalar final states

Collaboration
May 25, 2013
8 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 88 (2013) 1, 011102
  • Published: Jul 23, 2013
e-Print:
Report number:
  • BELLE-PREPRINT-2013-8,
  • KEK-PREPRINT-2013-6
Experiments:

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Abstract: (APS)
Using samples of 102 million Υ(1S) and 158 million Υ(2S) events collected with the Belle detector, we study exclusive hadronic decays of these two bottomonium resonances to KS0K+π- and charge-conjugate (c.c.) states, π+π-π0π0, and π+π-π0, and to the two-body Vector-Pseudoscalar (K*(892)0K¯0+c.c., K*(892)-K++c.c., ωπ0, and ρπ) final states. For the first time, signals are observed in the modes Υ(1S)→KS0K+π-+c.c., π+π-π0π0, and Υ(2S)→π+π-π0π0, and evidence is found for the modes Υ(1S)→π+π-π0, K*(892)0K¯0+c.c., and Υ(2S)→KS0K+π-+c.c. Branching fractions are measured for all the processes, while 90% confidence level upper limits on the branching fractions are also set for the modes with a statistical significance of less than 3σ. The ratios of the branching fractions of Υ(2S) and Υ(1S) decays into the same final state are used to test a perturbative QCD prediction for Okubo-Zweig-Iizuka-suppressed bottomonium decays.
Note:
  • 8 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables, accepted for publication as a Rapid Communication in Physical Review D
  • 14.40.Pq
  • 12.38.Qk
  • 13.25.Gv
  • branching ratio: ratio
  • quantum chromodynamics: perturbation theory
  • Upsilon(10020): branching ratio: measured
  • Upsilon(9460): branching ratio: measured
  • BELLE
  • electron positron: annihilation
  • upsilon mesons: hadronic decay