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Studies of charmonium-like states at BABAR

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2014-11-20 v2

Abstract

Several charmonium-like states above DDˉD\bar{D} threshold have been discovered at the Belle and BABAR B-factories. Some of these states are produced via Initial State Radiation (e.g. Y(4260) and Y(4350)), and some are observed in B-meson decays (e.g. X(3872), and Y(3940)). The Belle observations of the enhancements in the ψ(2S)π\psi(2S)\pi^- and χc1π\chi_{c1}\pi^-, i.e. the Z(4430)-, Z_1(4050)-, and Z_2(4250)-, have generated a great deal of interest, because such states must have minimum quark content (ccˉduˉ)(c\bar{c}d\bar{u}), i.e. these are candidate four-quark state. The BABAR Collaboration does not confirm the existinence of the Z(4430)Z(4430)^-.

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@article{arxiv.0909.3051,
  title  = {Studies of charmonium-like states at BABAR},
  author = {Arafat Gabareen Mokhtar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0909.3051},
  year   = {2014}
}

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To appear in the proceedings of the 2009 Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics, July 16-22, 2009, Krakow, Poland