Abstract
We report evidence for the ground state of bottomonium, eta(b)(1S), in the radiative decay Gamma(3S) -> gamma eta(b) in e(+)e(-) annihilation data taken with the CLEO III detector. Using 6 X 10(6) Gamma(dS) decays, and assuming Gamma(eta(b)) = 10 +/- 5 MeV/c(2), we obtain B(Gamma(3S) -> gamma eta(b)) = (7.1 +/- 1.8 +/- 1.3) X 10(-4), where the first error is statistical and the second is systematic. The statistical significance is -4 sigma. The mass is determined to be M(eta(b)) = 9391.8 +/- 6.6 +/- 2.0 MeV/c(2), which corresponds to the hyperfine splitting Delta M-hf(1S)(b) = 68.5 +/- 6.6 +/- 2.0 MeV/c(2). Using 9 X 10(6) Gamma(2S) decays, we place an upper limit on the corresponding Gamma(2S) decay, B(Gamma(2S) -> gamma eta(b)) < 8.4 X 10(-4) at 90% confidence level.
Published in:
Physical Review D 81,3 (2010)
Link to original published article:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.81.031104
Date of Version
February 2010
Recommended Citation
Bonvicini, G.; Cinabro, D.; Lincoln, A.; Smith, M. J.; Zhou, P.; Zhu, J.; Naik, P.; Rademacker, J.; Asner, D. M.; Edwards, K. W.; Reed, J.; Robichaud, A. N.; Tatishvili, G.; White, E. J.; Briere, R. A.; Vogel, H.; Onyisi, P. U. E.; Rosner, J. L.; Alexander, J. P.; Cassel, D. G.; Ehrlich, R.; Fields, L.; Galik, R. S.; Gibbons, L.; Gray, S. W.; Hartill, D. L.; Heltsley, B. K.; Hunt, J. M.; Kreinick, D. L.; Kuznetsov, V. E.; Ledoux, J.; Mahlke-Kruger, H.; Patterson, J. R.; Peterson, D.; Riley, D.; Ryd, A.; Sadoff, A. J.; Shi, X.; Stroiney, S.; Sun, W. M.; Yelton, J.; Rubin, P.; Lowrey, N.; Mehrabyan, S.; Selen, M.; Wiss, J.; Kornicer, M.; Mitchell, R. E.; Shepherd, M. R.; Tarbert, C. M.; Besson, D.; Pedlar, T. K.; Xavier, J.; Cronin-Hennessy, D.; Gao, K. Y.; Hietala, J.; Poling, R.; Zweber, P.; Dobbs, S.; Metreveli, Z.; Seth, K. K.; Tan, B. J. Y.; Tomaradze, A.; Brisbane, S.; Libby, J.; Martin, L.; Powell, A.; Spradlin, P.; Thomas, C.; Wilkinson, G.; Mendez, H.; Ge, J. Y.; Miller, D. H.; Shipsey, I. P. J.; Xin, B.; Adams, G. S.; Hu, D.; Moziak, B.; Napolitano, J.; Ecklund, K. M.; Insler, J.; Muramatsu, H.; Park, C. S.; Thorndike, E. H.; Yang, F.; Artuso, M.; Blusk, S.; Khalil, S.; Mountain, R.; Randrianarivony, K.; Skwarnicki, T.; Wang, J. C.; Zhang, L. M.; and Collaboration, C., "Measurement of the eta b(1S) mass and the branching fraction for Gamma(3S) ->
gamma eta b(1S)" (2010). Department of Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications. Paper 1178.
https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/physics_articles/1178