Measurements of the mass, total width and two photon partial width of the eta(c) meson

Collaboration
Jun, 2000
9 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.Lett. 85 (2000) 3095-3099
e-Print:
Report number:
  • SLAC-REPRINT-2000-063,
  • CLNS-00-1673,
  • CLEO-00-09
Experiments:

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Abstract: (arXiv)
Using 13.4 fb1fb^{-1} of data collected with the CLEO detector at the Cornell Electron Storage Ring, we have observed 300 events for the two-photon production of ground-state pseudo-scalar charmonium in the decay ηc\eta_c -> KSKπ±K_S K^{\mp} \pi^{\pm}. We have measured the ηc\eta_c mass to be (2980.4 +- 2.3 (stat) +- 0.6 (sys)) MeV and its full width as (27.0 +- 5.8 (stat) +- 1.4 (sys)) MeV. We have determined the two-photon partial width of the ηc\eta_c meson to be (7.6 +- 0.8 (stat) +- 0.4 (sys) +- 2.3 (br)) keV, with the last uncertainty associated with the decay branching fraction.
Note:
  • electron positron: colliding beams
  • electron positron: inelastic scattering
  • exchange: two-photon
  • photon photon: interaction
  • eta/c(2980): photoproduction
  • eta/c(2980): mass
  • eta/c(2980): width
  • eta/c(2980): hadronic decay
  • eta/c(2980): radiative decay
  • CLEO