Precision Measurement of the Mass of the h(c)(P-1(1)) State of Charmonium

Collaboration
May, 2008
9 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.Lett. 101 (2008) 182003
e-Print:
Report number:
  • CLNS-08-2020,
  • CLEO-08-04
Experiments:

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Abstract: (arXiv)
A precision measurement of the mass of the h_c(1P1) state of charmonium has been made using a sample of 24.5 million psi(2S) events produced in e+e- annihilation at CESR. The reaction used was psi(2S) -> pi0 h_c, pi0 -> gamma gamma, h_c -> gamma eta_c, and the reaction products were detected in the CLEO-c detector. Data have been analyzed both for the inclusive reaction and for the exclusive reactions in which eta_c decays are reconstructed in fifteen hadronic decay channels. Consistent results are obtained in the two analyses. The averaged results of the present measurements are M(h_c)=3525.28+-0.19 (stat)+-0.12(syst) MeV, and B(psi(2S) -> pi0 h_c)xB(h_c -> gamma eta_c)= (4.19+-0.32+-0.45)x10^-4. Using the 3PJ centroid mass, Delta M_hf(1P)= - M(h_c) = +0.02+-0.19+-0.13 MeV.
  • 14.40.Gx
  • 12.38.Qk
  • 13.25.Gv
  • electron positron: colliding beams
  • electron positron: annihilation
  • charmonium
  • hadronic decay
  • h/c(3526): radiative decay
  • branching ratio
  • eta/c(2980): decay modes