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Study of charmonia in four-meson final states produced in two-photon collisions


Authors listUehara, S.; Adachi, I.; Aihara, H.; Aulchenko, V.; Aushev, T.; Bakich, A. M.; Balagura, V.; Barberio, E.; Bay, A.; Belous, K.; Bitenc, U.; Bondar, A.; Bozek, A.; Bracko, M.; Brodzicka, J.; Browder, T. E.; Chang, P.; Chao, Y.; Chen, A.; Chen, K. -F.; Chen, W. T.; Cheon, B. G.; Cho, I. -S.; Choi, Y.; Choi, Y. K.; Dalseno, J.; Dash, M.; Drutskoy, A.; Eidelman, S.; Epifanov, D.; Fratina, S.; Gabyshev, N.; Gokhroo, G.; Golob, B.; Ha, H.; Haba, J.; Hayasaka, K.; Hayashii, H.; Hazumi, M.; Heffernan, D.; Hokuue, T.; Hoshi, Y.; Hou, W. -S.; Hyun, H. J.; Iijima, T.; Ikado, K.; Inami, K.; Ishikawa, A.; Itoh, R.; Iwasaki, M.; Iwasaki, Y.; Kah, D. H.; Kaji, H.; Kang, J. H.; Kawai, H.; Kawasaki, T.; Kichimi, H.; Kim, H. O.; Kim, S. K.; Kim, Y. J.; Korpar, S.; Krizan, P.; Krokovny, P.; Kumar, R.; Kuo, C. C.; Kuzmin, A.; Kwon, Y. -J.; Lee, J. S.; Lee, M. J.; Lee, S. E.; Lesiak, T.; Li, J.; Limosani, A.; Lin, S. -W.; Liu, Y.; Liventsev, D.; Mandl, F.; Matsumoto, T.; Matyja, A.; McOnie, S.; Medvedeva, T.; Miyake, H.; Miyata, H.; Miyazaki, Y.; Mizuk, R.; Nagasaka, Y.; Nakano, E.; Nakao, M.; Nakazawa, H.; Natkaniec, Z.; Nishida, S.; Nitoh, O.; Ogawa, S.; Ohshima, T.; Okuno, S.; Olsen, S. L.; Onuki, Y.; Ozaki, H.; Pakhlov, P.; Pakhlova, G.; Palka, H.; Park, C. W.; Park, H.; Peak, L. S.; Pestotnik, R.; Piilonen, L. E.; Sahoo, H.; Sakai, Y.; Schneider, O.; Seidl, R.; Senyo, K.; Sevior, M. E.; Shapkin, M.; Shibuya, H.; Shiu, J. -G.; Shwartz, B.; Singh, J. B.; Sokolov, A.; Somov, A.; Soni, N.; Stanic, S.; Staric, M.; Stoeck, H.; Sumiyoshi, T.; Takasaki, F.; Tamai, K.; Tanaka, M.; Taylor, G. N.; Teramoto, Y.; Tian, X. C.; Tikhomirov, I.; Tsuboyama, T.; Unno, Y.; Uno, S.; Urquijo, P.; Usov, Y.; Varner, G.; Vervink, K.; Villa, S.; Vinokurova, A.; Wang, C. H.; Wang, P.; Watanabe, Y.; Won, E.; Yabsley, B. D.; Yamaguchi, A.; Yamashita, Y.; Yuan, C. Z.; Zhang, C. C.; Zhang, Z. P.; Zhilich, V.; Zupanc, A.

Publication year2008

Pages1-14

JournalThe European Physical Journal C

Volume number53

Issue number1

ISSN1434-6044

eISSN1434-6052

DOI Linkhttps://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-007-0451-z

PublisherSpringerOpen


Abstract
We report measurements of charmonia produced in two-photon collisions and decaying to four-meson final states, where the meson is either a charged pion or a charged kaon. The analysis is based on a 395 fb(-1) data sample accumulated with the Belle detector at the KEKB electron-positron collider. We observe signals for the three C-even charmonia eta(c)(1S), chi(c0)(1P) and chi(c2)(1P) in the pi(+) pi(-) pi(+) pi(-), K+ K- pi(+) pi(-) and K+ K- K+ K- decay modes. No clear signals for eta(c)(2S) production are found in these decay modes. We have also studied resonant structures in charmonium decays to two-body intermediate meson resonances. We report the products of the two-photon decay width and the branching fractions, Gamma B-gamma gamma, for each of the charmonium decay modes.



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Harvard Citation styleUehara, S., Adachi, I., Aihara, H., Aulchenko, V., Aushev, T., Bakich, A., et al. (2008) Study of charmonia in four-meson final states produced in two-photon collisions, The European Physical Journal C, 53(1), pp. 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-007-0451-z

APA Citation styleUehara, S., Adachi, I., Aihara, H., Aulchenko, V., Aushev, T., Bakich, A., Balagura, V., Barberio, E., Bay, A., Belous, K., Bitenc, U., Bondar, A., Bozek, A., Bracko, M., Brodzicka, J., Browder, T., Chang, P., Chao, Y., Chen, A., ...Zupanc, A. (2008). Study of charmonia in four-meson final states produced in two-photon collisions. The European Physical Journal C. 53(1), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-007-0451-z



Keywords


BELLEDECAYSETA(C)GAMMA-GAMMALEPRELATIVISTIC QUARK-MODEL

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