An experimental limit on ιγγ\iota\to \gamma\gamma and the interpretation of the ι\iota as a glueball

Collaboration
Mar, 1986
15 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.Lett. 57 (1986) 51
Report number:
  • UCSB-HEP-86-2
Experiments:
  • SLAC-PEP-004

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Abstract: (APS)
By observing the reaction γγ→Ks0K±π∓, the TPC/Two-Gamma experiment at the SLAC e+e− storage ring PEP has obtained a 95%-confidence-level limit of Γι→γγB(ι→KK¯π)<1.6 keV for the ι(1450) meson. If, as is likely, the ι decays predominantly into KK¯π, the resulting Γι→γγ limit appears to conflict with previous assignments of an observed ργ decay to ι and also with many analyses of η-η’-ι mixing. The contrast of this small γγ width with the large rate for J/ψ→γι is evidence that the ι is a glueball with little admixture of qq¯ states.
  • ELECTRON POSITRON: INELASTIC SCATTERING
  • INELASTIC SCATTERING: ELECTRON POSITRON
  • ELECTRON POSITRON: COLLIDING BEAMS
  • COLLIDING BEAMS: ELECTRON POSITRON
  • EXCHANGE: TWO-PHOTON
  • TWO-PHOTON: EXCHANGE
  • PHOTON PHOTON: INTERACTION
  • INTERACTION: PHOTON PHOTON
  • MASS SPECTRUM: (K0(S) K PI)
  • (K0(S) K PI): MASS SPECTRUM