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Study of X(3915) --> J/\psi \omega\ in two-photon collisions

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2013-05-30 v2

Abstract

We study the process γγJ/ψω\gamma \gamma \to J/\psi \omega using a data sample of 519.2 fb1fb^{-1} recorded by the BaBar detector at SLAC at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy e+ee^+ e^- collider at center-of-mass energies near the Υ(nS)\Upsilon(nS) (n=2,3,4n = 2,3,4) resonances. We confirm the existence of the charmonium-like resonance X(3915) decaying to J/ψωJ/\psi \omega with a significance of 7.6 standard deviations, including systematic uncertainties, and measure its mass (3919.4±2.2±1.6)MeV/c2(3919.4 \pm 2.2 \pm 1.6) MeV/c^2 and width (13±6±3)MeV(13 \pm 6 \pm 3) MeV, where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second systematic. A spin-parity analysis supports the assignment JP=0+J^P=0^+ and therefore the identification of the signal as due to the χc0(2P)\chi_{c0}(2P) resonance. In this hypothesis we determine the product between the two-photon width and the final state branching fraction to be (52±10±3)eV(52 \pm 10 \pm 3) eV

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@article{arxiv.1207.2651,
  title  = {Study of X(3915) --> J/\psi \omega\ in two-photon collisions},
  author = {The BABAR Collaboration},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1207.2651},
  year   = {2013}
}

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12 pages, 8 postscript figures, to be published in Physical Review D