TY - JOUR
T1 - Study of di-pion bottomonium transitions and search for the h_b(1P) state
AU - The BaBar Collaboration
AU - Playfer, Stephen
AU - Clark, Philip
N1 - 8 pages, 4 postscript figures; typos corrected, fixed references
PY - 2011/5/21
Y1 - 2011/5/21
N2 - We study inclusive di-pion decays using a sample of 108 x 10^6 Upsilon(3S) events recorded with the BABAR detector. We search for the decay mode Upsilon(3S) --> pi+ pi- h_b(1P) and find no evidence for the bottomonium spin-singlet state h_b(1P) in the invariant mass distribution recoiling against the pi+ pi- system. Assuming the h_b(1P) mass to be 9.900 GeV/c^2, we measure the upper limit on the branching fraction B[Upsilon(3S) --> pi+ pi- h_b(1P)] pi+ pi- chi_{bJ}(1P), Upsilon(3S) --> pi+ pi- Upsilon(2S), and Upsilon(2S) --> pi+ pi- Upsilon(1S) di-pion transitions and present an improved measurement of the branching fraction of the Upsilon(3S) --> pi+ pi- Upsilon(2S) decay and of the Upsilon(3S)-Upsilon(2S) mass difference.
AB - We study inclusive di-pion decays using a sample of 108 x 10^6 Upsilon(3S) events recorded with the BABAR detector. We search for the decay mode Upsilon(3S) --> pi+ pi- h_b(1P) and find no evidence for the bottomonium spin-singlet state h_b(1P) in the invariant mass distribution recoiling against the pi+ pi- system. Assuming the h_b(1P) mass to be 9.900 GeV/c^2, we measure the upper limit on the branching fraction B[Upsilon(3S) --> pi+ pi- h_b(1P)] pi+ pi- chi_{bJ}(1P), Upsilon(3S) --> pi+ pi- Upsilon(2S), and Upsilon(2S) --> pi+ pi- Upsilon(1S) di-pion transitions and present an improved measurement of the branching fraction of the Upsilon(3S) --> pi+ pi- Upsilon(2S) decay and of the Upsilon(3S)-Upsilon(2S) mass difference.
KW - hep-ex
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/79961061786
U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevD.84.011104
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevD.84.011104
M3 - Article
JO - Physical Review D, particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology
JF - Physical Review D, particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology
ER -