Journal article

Observation of exclusive Υ(1S) and Υ(2S) decays into light hadrons

CP Shen, CZ Yuan, T Iijima, I Adachi, H Aihara, DM Asner, T Aushev, AM Bakich, A Bay, K Belous, B Bhuyan, M Bischofberger, G Bonvicini, A Bozek, M Bračko, TE Browder, MC Chang, P Chang, A Chen, P Chen Show all

Physical Review D Particles Fields Gravitation and Cosmology | Published : 2012

Abstract

Using samples of 102×106 Υ(1S) and 158×106 Υ(2S) events collected with the Belle detector, we study exclusive hadronic decays of these two bottomonium resonances to the three-body final states Ï•K +K -, ωπ +π - and K *0(892)K -π +, and to the two-body Vector-Tensor states (Ï•f2′(1525), ωf 2(1270), ρa 2(1320) and K *0(892)K̄2*0(1430)) and Axial-vector-Pseudoscalar (K 1(1270) +K -, K 1(1400) +K - and b 1(1235) +π -) states. Signals are observed for the first time in the Υ(1S)→Ï•K +K -, ωπ +π -, K *0K -π +, K *0K2*0 and Υ(2S)→Ï•K +K -, K *0K -π + decay modes. Branching fractions are determined for all the processes, while 90% confidence level upper limits are established on the branching fracti..

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Grants

Awarded by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science


Funding Acknowledgements

We thank the KEKB group for excellent operation of the accelerator; the KEK cryogenics group for efficient solenoid operations; and the KEK computer group, the NII, and PNNL/EMSL for valuable computing and SINET4 network support. We acknowledge support from MEXT, JSPS and Nagoya's TLPRC (Japan); ARC and DIISR (Australia); NSFC (China); MSMT (Czechia); DST (India); INFN (Italy); MEST, NRF, GSDC of KISTI, and WCU (Korea); MNiSW (Poland); MES and RFAAE (Russia); ARRS (Slovenia); SNSF (Switzerland); NSC and MOE (Taiwan); and DOE and NSF (USA).