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Suppressed decay into open charm for the Y(4260) being an hybrid

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v2

Abstract

We investigate the Y(4260) resonance recently discovered by the Babar collaboration. We propose the observation of its decay into J/psi pi pi and its non observation into open charm as a consequence of it being a charmonium hybrid state with a magnetic constituent gluon. We prove a selection rule forbidding its decay into two S-wave charmed mesons in any potential model. We suggest a generalisation of the selection rule based only on the heavy quark nature of the charm.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0507119,
  title  = {Suppressed decay into open charm for the Y(4260) being an hybrid},
  author = {E. Kou and O. Pene},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0507119},
  year   = {2008}
}

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