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Observation of a resonant structure in $e^{+}e^{-} \to K^{+}K^{-}\pi^{0}\pi^{0}$

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2020-03-25 v1

Abstract

Using e+ee^{+}e^{-} collision data samples with center-of-mass energies ranging from 2.000 to 2.644 GeV, collected by the BESIII detector at the BEPCII collider, and with a total integrated luminosity of 300 pb^{-1}, a partial-wave analysis is performed for the process e+eK+Kπ0π0e^{+}e^{-} \to K^{+}K^{-}\pi^{0}\pi^{0}. The total Born cross sections for the process e+eK+Kπ0π0e^{+}e^{-} \to K^{+}K^{-}\pi^{0}\pi^{0}, as well as the Born cross sections f or the subprocesses e+eϕπ0π0e^{+}e^{-} \to \phi \pi^{0}\pi^{0}, K+(1460)KK^{+}(1460)K^{-}, K1+(1400)KK^{+}_{1}(1400)K^{-}, K1+(1270)KK^{+}_{1}(1270)K^{-} and K+(892)K(892)K^{*+}(892)K^{*-}(892), are measured versus the center-of-mass energy. The corresponding results for e+eK+Kπ0π0e^{+}e^{-} \to K^{+}K^{-}\pi^{0}\pi^{0} and ϕπ0π0\phi \pi^{0}\pi^{0} are consistent with those of BaBar and have much improved precision.By analyzing the cross sections for the four subprocesses, K+(1460)KK^{+}(1460)K^{-}, K1+(1400)KK^{+}_{1}(1400)K^{-}, K1+(1270)KK^{+ }_{1}(1270)K^{-} and K+KK^{*+}K^{*-}, a structure with mass MM = (2126.5 ±\pm 16.8 ±\pm 12.4)~MeV/c^{2} and width Γ\Gamma = (106.9 ±\pm 32.1 ±\pm 28.1)~MeV is observed with an overall statistical significance of 6.3 σ\sigma, although with very limited significance in the subprocesses e+eK1+(1270)Ke^{+}e^{-} \to K^{+}_{1}(1270)K^{-} and K+(892)K(892)K^{*+}(892)K^{*-}(892). The resonant parameters of the observed structure suggest it can be identified with the ϕ(2170)\phi(2170), thus the results provide valuable input to the internal nature of the ϕ(2170)\phi(2170).

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  title  = {Observation of a resonant structure in $e^{+}e^{-} \to K^{+}K^{-}\pi^{0}\pi^{0}$},
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  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.04131},
  year   = {2020}
}