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Toward $e^+e^-\to \pi^+\pi^-$ annihilation inspired by higher $\rho$ mesonic states around 2.2 GeV

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2020-09-01 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

Very recently, the {\it BABAR} Collaboration indicated that there exist an explicit enhancement structure near 2.2 GeV when focusing on the e+eπ+πe^+e^-\to\pi^+\pi^- process again, which inspires our interest in studying the production of higher ρ\rho mesonic states. Since the branching ratio of π+π\pi^+\pi^- channel of DD-wave ρ\rho states are much smaller than SS-wave states, we choose ρ(1900)\rho(1900) and ρ(2150)\rho(2150) as the intermediate states in e+eπ+πe^+e^-\to\pi^+\pi^-, where ρ(1900)\rho(1900) and ρ(2150)\rho(2150) are treated as ρ(3S)\rho(3S) and ρ(4S)\rho(4S) states, respectively. Our result indicates that the BABARBABAR's data of e+eπ+πe^+e^-\to\pi^+\pi^- around 2 GeV can be depicted well, which shows that this enhancement structure near 2.2 GeV existing in e+eπ+πe^+e^-\to\pi^+\pi^- can be due to the contribution from two ρ\rho mesons, ρ(1900)\rho(1900) and ρ(2150)\rho(2150). Additionally, this conclusion can be enforced by the consistence of the extracted values of Γe+eB(π+π)\Gamma_{e^+e^-}\mathcal{B}(\pi^+\pi^-) of ρ(1900)\rho(1900) and ρ(2150)\rho(2150) in the whole fitting processes and the corresponding theoretical calculations. The present study of e+eπ+πe^+e^-\to\pi^+\pi^- data may provide valuable information to establish the ρ\rho meson family.

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@article{arxiv.2007.03118,
  title  = {Toward $e^+e^-\to \pi^+\pi^-$ annihilation inspired by higher $\rho$ mesonic states around 2.2 GeV},
  author = {Li-Ming Wang and Jun-Zhang Wang and Xiang Liu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.03118},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

6 pages, 1 table and 2 figures. Accepted by Phys. Rev. D