Observation of hc Radiative Decay hc →γη′ and Evidence for hc →γη

  • M. Ablikim
  • , M. N. Achasov
  • , X. C. Ai
  • , O. Albayrak
  • , M. Albrecht
  • , D. J. Ambrose
  • , A. Amoroso
  • , F. F. An
  • , Q. An
  • , J. Z. Bai
  • , R. Baldini Ferroli
  • , Y. Ban
  • , D. W. Bennett
  • , J. V. Bennett
  • , M. Bertani
  • , D. Bettoni
  • , J. M. Bian
  • , F. Bianchi
  • , E. Boger
  • , I. Boyko
  • R. A. Briere, H. Cai, X. Cai, O. Cakir, A. Calcaterra, G. F. Cao, S. A. Cetin, J. F. Chang, G. Chelkov, G. Chen, H. S. Chen, H. Y. Chen, J. C. Chen, M. L. Chen, S. Chen, S. J. Chen, X. Chen, X. R. Chen, Y. B. Chen, H. P. Cheng, X. K. Chu, G. Cibinetto, H. L. Dai, J. P. Dai, A. Dbeyssi, D. Dedovich, Z. Y. Deng, A. Denig, H. Muramatsu, R. Poling, BESIII Collaboration

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Abstract

A search for radiative decays of the P-wave spin singlet charmonium resonance hc is performed based on 4.48×108 ψ′ events collected with the BESIII detector operating at the BEPCII storage ring. Events of the reaction channels hc→γη′ and γη are observed with a statistical significance of 8.4σ and 4.0σ, respectively, for the first time. The branching fractions of hc→γη′ and hc→γη are measured to be B(hc→γη′)=(1.52±0.27±0.29)×10-3 and B(hc→γη)=(4.7±1.5±1.4)×10-4, respectively, where the first errors are statistical and the second are systematic uncertainties.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number251802
JournalPhysical review letters
Volume116
Issue number25
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 21 2016

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