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Measurement of the mass splittings between the bb̄χb,J(1P) states

  • K. W. Edwards
  • , A. Bellerive
  • , R. Janicek
  • , D. B. MacFarlane
  • , P. M. Patel
  • , A. J. Sadoff
  • , R. Ammar
  • , P. Baringer
  • , A. Bean
  • , D. Besson
  • , D. Coppage
  • , C. Darling
  • , R. Davis
  • , S. Kotov
  • , I. Kravchenko
  • , N. Kwak
  • , L. Zhou
  • , S. Anderson
  • , Y. Kubota
  • , S. J. Lee
  • J. J. O'Neill, R. Poling, T. Riehle, A. Smith, M. S. Alam, S. B. Athar, Z. Ling, A. H. Mahmood, S. Timm, F. Wappler, A. Anastassov, J. E. Duboscq, D. Fujino, K. K. Gan, T. Hart, K. Honscheid, H. Kagan, R. Kass, J. Lee, H. Schwarthoff, M. B. Spencer, M. Sung, A. Undrus, A. Wolf, M. M. Zoeller, S. J. Richichi, H. Severini, P. Skubic, M. Bishai, J. Fast, J. W. Hinson, N. Menon, D. H. Miller, E. I. Shibata, I. P.J. Shipsey, M. Yurko, S. Glenn, Y. Kwon, A. L. Lyon, S. Roberts, E. H. Thorndike, C. P. Jessop, K. Lingel, H. Marsiske, M. L. Perl, V. Savinov, D. Ugolini, X. Zhou, T. E. Coan, V. Fadeyev, I. Korolkov, Y. Maravin, I. Narsky, V. Shelkov, J. Staeck, R. Stroynowski, I. Volobouev, J. Ye, M. Artuso, F. Azfar, A. Efimov, M. Goldberg, D. He, S. Kopp, G. C. Moneti, R. Mountain, S. Schuh, T. Skwarnicki, S. Stone, G. Viehhauser, J. C. Wang, X. Xing, J. Bartelt, S. E. Csorna, V. Jain, K. W. McLean, S. Marka, R. Godang, K. Kinoshita, I. C. Lai, P. Pomianowski, S. Schrenk, G. Bonvicini, D. Cinabro, R. Greene, L. P. Perera, G. J. Zhou, M. Chadha, S. Chan, G. Eigen, J. S. Miller, M. Schmidtler, J. Urheim, A. J. Weinstein, F. Würthwein, D. W. Bliss, D. E. Jaffe, G. Masek, H. P. Paar, S. Prell, V. Sharma, D. M. Asner, J. Gronberg, T. S. Hill, D. J. Lange, R. J. Morrison, H. N. Nelson, T. K. Nelson, D. Roberts, B. H. Behrens, W. T. Ford, A. Gritsan, J. Roy, J. G. Smith, J. P. Alexander, R. Baker, C. Bebek, B. E. Berger, K. Berkelman, K. Bloom, V. Boisvert, D. G. Cassel, D. S. Crowcroft, M. Dickson, S. Von Dombrowski, P. S. Drell, K. M. Ecklund, R. Ehrlich, A. D. Poland, P. Gaidarev, R. S. Galik, L. Gibbons, B. Gittelman, S. W. Gray, D. L. Hartill, B. K. Heltsley, P. I. Hopman, J. Kandaswamy, D. L. Kreinick, T. Lee, Y. Liu, N. B. Mistry, C. R. Ng, E. Nordberg, M. Ogg, J. R. Patterson, D. Peterson, D. Riley, A. Soffer, B. Valant-Spaight, C. Ward, M. Athanas, P. Avery, C. D. Jones, M. Lohner, S. Patton, C. Prescott, J. Yelton, J. Zheng, G. Brandenburg, R. A. Briere, A. Ershov, Y. S. Gao, D. Y.J. Kim, R. Wilson, H. Yamamoto, T. E. Browder, Y. Li, J. L. Rodriguez, T. Bergfeld, B. I. Eisenstein, J. Ernst, G. E. Gladding, G. D. Gollin, R. M. Hans, E. Johnson, I. Karliner, M. A. Marsh, M. Palmer, M. Selen, J. J. Thaler
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Abstract

We present new measurements of photon energies and branching fractions for the radiative transitions Y(2S)→γχb(J=0,1,2)(1P). The masses of the χb states are determined from the measured radiative photon energies. The ratio of mass splittings between the χb substates, r≡(MJ=2-MJ=1)/(MJ=1-MJ=0), with M the χb mass, provides information on the nature of the bb̄ confining potential. We find r(1P)=0.542 ±0.022±0.024. This value is somewhat lower than the previous world average, but more consistent with the theoretical expectation that r(1P)<r(2P); i.e., that this mass splitting ratio is smaller for the χb(1P) states than for the χb(2P) states.

Original languageEnglish
Article number032003
Pages (from-to)1-5
Number of pages5
JournalPhysical Review D
Volume59
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 1 1999

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