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Photons carrying a well-defined orbital angular momentum have been proven to modify spectroscopic selection rules in atomic matter. Excitation profiles of electric quadrupole transitions have been measured with single trapped $^{40}$Ca$^+$…
Based on data collected by the CLEO III detector at CESR, we started a series of investigations to open the mysteries of the $\Upsilon$(5S) resonance decay properties. $B_s$ mesons are expected to decay predominantly into $D_s$ meson, while…
The two-photon transition $\psi(3686)\to\gamma\gamma J/\psi$ is studied in a sample of 106 million $\psi(3686)$ decays collected by the BESIII detector. The branching fraction is measured to be…
Dipion transitions of $\Upsilon (nS)$ with $n=5, n'=1,2,3$ are studied using the Field Correlator Method, applied previously to dipion transitions with $n=2,3,4$ The only two parameters of effective Lagrangian were fixed in that earlier…
The di-pion spectrum for the $\Upsilon(nS) \to \Upsilon (n'S))$ transition with $n\leq 4$ has the form $\frac{dw}{dq}\sim $ (phase space) $ |\eta-x|^2$, with $x=\frac{q^2-4m^2_\pi}{(\Delta M)^2 -4 m^2_\pi}< q^2 \equiv M^2_{\pi\pi}, $ and…
Using samples of 102 million $\Upsilon(1S)$ and 158 million $\Upsilon(2S)$ events collected with the Belle detector, we study exclusive hadronic decays of these two bottomonium resonances to the three-body final states $\phi K^+ K^-$,…
The large data sample being recorded with the Belle detector at the $\Upsilon$(5S) energy provides a unique opportunity to study the less-well-known $B_s^{0}$ meson decays. Following our recent measurement of $B_s^{0}\to D_s^{-}\pi^{+}$ in…
Energy levels and radiative rates (A-values) for four types of transitions (E1, E2, M1, and M2) are reported for an astrophysically important Mg-like ion Si~III, whose emission lines have been observed in a variety of plasmas. For the…
Using a sample of 3.08 million psi(2S) decays collected at sqrt{s} = 3.686 GeV with the CLEO detector at the Cornell Electron Storage Ring, we have measured the branching fractions for psi(2S) decays to pseudoscalar pairs pi+pi-, K+K-, and…
We report results from a study of hadronic transitions of the $\chi_{bJ}(nP)$ states of bottomonium at Belle. The $P$-wave states are reconstructed in transitions to the $\Upsilon(1S)$ with the emission of an $\omega$ meson. The transitions…
The $e^+e^- \to \pi^+ \pi^- \pi^0 \chi_{bJ}$ ($J=0,~1,~2$) processes are studied using a 118~fb$^{-1}$ data sample collected at a center-of-mass energy of 10.867 GeV, in the $\Upsilon(10860)$ energy range, with the Belle detector. The…
We present preliminary improved measurements of the branching fractions of the color-suppressed decays B0bar -> D0 h0, where h0 represents the three light neutral mesons pi0, eta and omega. The measurements are based on a data sample of…
Using data collected by the CLEO detector in the Upsilon(4S) region, we report new measurements of the exclusive decays of B mesons into final states of the type Lambda_c^+ p-bar n(pi), where n=0,1,2,3. We find signals in modes with one,…
Using 24 million $\psi' \equiv \psi(2S)$ decays in CLEO-c, we have searched for higher multipole admixtures in electric-dipole-dominated radiative transitions in charmonia. We find good agreement between our data and theoretical predictions…
The Upsilon production cross section in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV is measured using a data sample collected with the CMS detector at the LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.1 +/- 0.3 inverse picobarns.…
Using 1.8 fb-1 of pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV recorded by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider, we present measurements of the production cross sections of Upsilon(1S,2S,3S) mesons. Upsilon mesons are…
The electric dipole transitions $\chi_{bJ}(1P)\to \gamma\Upsilon(1S)$ with $J=0,1,2$ and $h_{b}(1P)\to \gamma\eta_{b}(1S)$ are computed using the weak-coupling version of a low-energy effective field theory named potential non-relativistic…
Using a sample of 122 million Upsilon(3S) events recorded with the BaBar detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy e+e- collider at SLAC, we search for the $h_b(1P)$ spin-singlet partner of the P-wave chi_{bJ}(1P) states in the sequential…
We have completed measurements of two low-lying excited-state electric-dipole (E1) transition amplitudes in lead. Our measured reduced matrix elements of the $(6s^2 6p^2)^3P_1 \to (6s^2 6p7s)^3P_0$ transition at 368.3 nm and the 405.8 nm…
The $\Upsilon(1S+2S+3S)\to e^{+}e^{-}$ cross section is measured at mid-rapidity ($y$) in $p+p$ collisions and in d$+Au$ collisions at center-of-mass energy $\sqrt{s}$ = 200 GeV with the STAR detector at RHIC. In $p+p$, the measured cross…