Belle J/psi+eta_c anomaly and a very light scalar boson
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-09-01 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract
The large rate of the production observed by the Belle collaboration has posed a serious challenge to our understanding of the quarkonium. We examine a scenario that there exists a light scalar boson around 5 GeV, with an enhanced coupling solely to the charm quark. Such a scenario would explain the Belle anomaly. It also predicts a significant increase in plus open charm pair production. An immediate test for the scalar boson is to look for a peak around 5 GeV in the recoil mass spectrum of , because the scalar boson can also be produced in association with the . Finally, we also point out that the process is sizable for observation.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0311003,
title = {Belle J/psi+eta_c anomaly and a very light scalar boson},
author = {Kingman Cheung and Wai-Yee Keung},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0311003},
year = {2009}
}
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10 pages, 5 figures