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New Metastable Charmonium and the $\psi '$ Anomaly at CDF

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-28 v1

Abstract

Production of metastable charmonium states more massive than the ψ(3685)\psi(3685) is expected in models and could be the source of up to 50%50\% of the ψ\psi observed at large pTp_T at the Tevatron.Narrow 2+,2ccˉ2^{-+},2^{--} c\bar{c} are predicted at around 3.8GeV and radially excited 23P1,22^3P_{1,2} may also have suppressed hadronic widths making these states potentially extra sources of ψ(3685)\psi(3685). Colour octet components are believed to dominate ψ\psi production at the Tevatron which suggests that hybrid charmonium production may also be prominent. Estimates of hybrid production rates and branching ratios into charmonium suggest that metastable hybrids with mass \approx 4GeV may play an important role in generating the observed ψ(3685),ψ(3095)\psi(3685),\psi(3095)

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9409203,
  title  = {New Metastable Charmonium and the $\psi '$ Anomaly at CDF},
  author = {Frank Close},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9409203},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

11 pages, no figures. RAL-94-093