Measurement of γγ widths of charmonium states

  • W. Y. Chen
  • , R. L. McIlwain
  • , D. H. Miller
  • , C. R. Ng
  • , S. F. Schaffner
  • , E. I. Shibata
  • , W. M. Yao
  • , K. Sparks
  • , E. H. Thorndike
  • , C. H. Wang
  • , M. S. Alam
  • , I. J. Kim
  • , W. C. Li
  • , X. C. Lou
  • , C. R. Sun
  • , P. N. Wang
  • , M. I. Zoeller
  • , D. Bortoletto
  • , M. Goldberg
  • , N. Horwitz
  • V. Jain, M. D. Mestayer, G. C. Moneti, V. Sharma, I. P.J. Shipsey, T. Skwarnicki, M. Thulasidas, S. E. Csorna, T. Letson, J. Alexander, M. Artuso, C. Bebek, K. Berkelman, D. G. Cassel, E. Cheu, D. M. Coffman, G. Crawford, J. W. DeWire, P. S. Dell, R. Ehrlich, R. S. Galik, B. Gittlman, S. W. Gray, A. M. Halling, D. L. Hartill, B. K. Heltsley, J. Kandaswamy, N. Katayama, D. L. Kreinick, J. D. Lewis

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Abstract

Using the CLEO detector at the Cornell Electron Storage Ring, we have searched for two-photon production of charmonium in four-track final states. We have measured Γγγc)=5.9+2.1-1.8±1.9 keV, and we have obtained 95% CL upper limits of Γγγ(Xc0)<6.2 keV and Γγγ(Xc2)<1.0 keV.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)169-174
Number of pages6
JournalPhysics Letters B
Volume243
Issue number1-2
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 21 1990

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
Jensen,t hanksJ ohn R. Smith for helpfuld iscussions regardingM onte Carlo generationo f two-photon processesF.o r their supportR, . Kass thankst heOJI programo f the DOE, P.S. Drell thankst hePYI pro-gramo f the NSF, and R. Poling thankst heA.P. Sloan foundationT. his work was supportedb y the National ScienceF oundationa nd by the US Department of Energy under contract Nos. DE-AC02-76ER01428, DE-AC02-83ER40103, DE-AC02-76ER03064, DE-AC02-76ER01545, DE-AC02-78ER5001,a nd DE-FG05-86ER40272T.h e Super-computingre sourcefso r the Cornell Theory Center were usedi n this research.

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