1. Light meson spectroscopy from Dalitz plot analyses of ηc decays to η′K+K− , η′π+π− , and ηπ+π− produced in two-photon interactions
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Z. C. Huard, U. Mallik, Yu. I. Skovpen, T. S. Miyashita, N. Neri, F. Anulli, E. Grauges, G. R. Bonneaud, Mario Giorgi, J. Dorfan, E. Fioravanti, F. Palombo, T. Lueck, Alessandro Gaz, B. N. Ratcliff, G. J. King, Elisa Manoni, F. Di Lodovico, A. M. Rossi, M. Verderi, N. Arnaud, J. L. Ritchie, L. M. Cremaldi, R. Y. So, A. Roodman, M. Rotondo, D. J. Payne, J. W. Gary, M. Ebert, S. H. Robertson, S. Bettarini, R. M. Seddon, F. Ferroni, R. Cenci, G. De Nardo, A. J. Bevan, Herbert Koch, Crisostomo Sciacca, D. Aston, A. Zallo, J. B. Kim, G. Rizzo, P. F. Harrison, D. G. Hitlin, W. J. Wisniewski, N. Tasneem, M. Fritsch, B. T. Meadows, G. Raven, K. Griessinger, S. M. Spanier, Tim Adye, A. Oyanguren, Stephen Robert Wagner, Aidan Randle-Conde, R. D. Kass, R. C. Field, F. Forti, K. R. Schubert, S. Passaggio, M. D. Sokoloff, P. R. Burchat, Yu. G. Kolomensky, G. Finocchiaro, J. P. Lees, Simon Akar, M. S. Alam, R. Prepost, J. M. Roney, C. Hast, S. Luitz, D. J. Lange, S. Martellotti, G. Piredda, W. Panduro Vazquez, D. E. Hutchcroft, Babar, J. Ocariz, I. M. Peruzzi, J. G. Smith, D. B. MacFarlane, H. A. Neal, G. Wormser, A. Calcaterra, C. Bünger, Maurizio Biasini, D. R. Muller, G. Casarosa, T. Leddig, Tamara Vazquez Schroeder, J. M. Izen, P. Ongmongkolkul, B. Bhuyan, B. Oberhof, V. E. Blinov, J. Cochran, E. A. Kravchenko, M. Piccolo, W. S. Lockman, B. G. Fulsom, T. J. Gershon, G. Vasseur, S. I. Serednyakov, F. Bianchi, I. M. Nugent, R. Cheaib, T. S. Mattison, C. Cartaro, Y. B. Li, Owen Rosser Long, D. W. G. S. Leith, G. Batignani, S. J. Sekula, M. R. Convery, A. Jawahery, V. Santoro, B. G. Pushpawela, W. Dunwoodie, Marco Bomben, S. Dittrich, D. S. Chao, R. Waldi, R. Gorodeisky, D. N. Brown, F. F. Wilson, Douglas Wright, D. A. Roberts, L. Zani, J. A. Ernst, L. Sun, T. E. Latham, M. Carpinelli, V. B. Golubev, C. P. Jessop, G. Calderini, Martino Margoni, M. Davier, J. M. LoSecco, M. K. Sullivan, S. Emery, E. Ben-Haim, E. A. Kozyrev, C. Touramanis, A. M. Lutz, E. Paoloni, B. Dey, M. T. Graham, A. Hafner, O. Grünberg, W. Gradl, D. X. Lin, M. Rama, J. Va’vra, Hamad Ahmed, R. Kowalewski, J. A. McKenna, A. P. Onuchin, E. M. T. Puccio, G. Cibinetto, A. V. Gritsan, Alessandro Pilloni, A. R. Buzykaev, D. R. Peimer, K. T. Flood, A. Beaulieu, M. Röhrken, A. Palano, R. Sacco, N. Guttman, G. Marchiori, R. Faccini, F. Ferrarotto, A. J. Lankford, F. Le Diberder, F. De Mori, P. Patteri, L. Lanceri, A. Filippi, Denis Bernard, A. J. S. Smith, R. Cowan, B. Echenard, J. Chauveau, V. P. Druzhinin, C. Bozzi, G. Cowan, K. Honscheid, R. J. Barlow, M. Posocco, D. Gamba, M. Bellis, James R. Wilson, Brian Shuve, R. Calabrese, G. Eigen, K. Yu Todyshev, R. Stroili, F. Simonetto, J. J. Walsh, G. D. Lafferty, X. C. Lou, J. Oyang, R. Godang, Cheng Chen, H. M. Lacker, M. Heß, C. Hearty, D. J. Summers, S. Prell, I. Garzia, R. J. Sobie, V. Poireau, A. Soffer, L. Vitale, F. Martinez-Vidal, A. Lusiani, E. Luppi, P. Taras, E. P. Solodov, J. P. Coleman, A. G. Denig, C. L. Davis, R. F. Schwitters, A. M. Eisner, Peter S. Kim, M. V. Purohit, J. Albert, C. H. Cheng, R. de Sangro, S. L. Wu, E. Gabathuler, W. R. Innes, F. C. Porter, M. Chrzaszcz, C. Voß, Sw. Banerjee, G. Simi, D. Bettoni, Florian Urs Bernlochner, C. Patrignani, and V. Tisserand
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Physics ,Meson ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,Branching fraction ,Glueball ,Electron–positron annihilation ,Resonance ,Dalitz plot ,01 natural sciences ,Crystallography ,0103 physical sciences ,010306 general physics ,Spectroscopy ,Scalar meson - Abstract
We study the processes γ γ → η c → η ′ K + K - , η ′ π + π - , and η π + π - using a data sample of 519 fb - 1 recorded with the BABAR detector operating at the SLAC PEP-II asymmetric-energy e + e - collider at center-of-mass energies at and near the ϒ ( n S ) ( n = 2 , 3, 4) resonances. This is the first observation of the decay η c → η ′ K + K - and we measure the branching fraction Γ ( η c → η ′ K + K - ) / ( Γ ( η c → η ′ π + π - ) = 0.644 ± 0.03 9 stat ± 0.03 2 sys . Significant interference is observed between γ γ → η c → η π + π - and the nonresonant two-photon process γ γ → η π + π - . A Dalitz plot analysis is performed of η c decays to η ′ K + K - , η ′ π + π - , and η π + π - . Combined with our previous analysis of η c → K K ¯ π , we measure the K 0 * ( 1430 ) parameters and the ratio between its η ′ K and π K couplings. The decay η c → η ′ π + π - is dominated by the f 0 ( 2100 ) resonance, also observed in J / ψ radiative decays. A new a 0 ( 1700 ) → η π resonance is observed in the η c → η π + π - channel. We also compare η c decays to η and η ′ final states in association with scalar mesons as they relate to the identification of the scalar glueball.
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- 2021