Limit on the Two-Photon Production of the Glueball Candidate {ital f}{sub {ital J}}(2220) at the Cornell Electron Storage Ring

Journal Article · Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 EST 1997 · Physical Review Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.79.3829· OSTI ID:628718

Godang, R; Kinoshita, K; Lai, I C; Pomianowski, P; Schrenk, S ^[1]; Bonvicini, G; Cinabro, D; Greene, R; Perera, L P; Zhou, G J ^[2]; Barish, B; Chadha, M; Chan, S; Eigen, G; Miller, J S; OGrady, C; Schmidtler, M; Urheim, J; Weinstein, A J; Wuerthwein, F ^[3] ; Asner, D M; Bliss, D W; Brower, W S; Masek, G; Paar, H P; Prell, S; Sivertz, M; Sharma, V ^[4]; Gronberg, J; Hill, T S; Kutschke, R; Lange, D J; Menary, S; Morrison, R J; Nelson, H N; Nelson, T K; Qiao, C; Richman, J D; Roberts, D; Ryd, A; Witherell, M S ^[5]; Balest, R; Behrens, B H; Cho, K; Ford, W T; Park, H; Rankin, P; Roy, J; Smith, J G ^[6]; Alexander, J P; Bebek, C; Berger, B E; Berkelman, K; Bloom, K; Cassel, D G; Cho, H A; Coffman, D M; Crowcroft, D S; Dickson, M; Drell, P S; Ecklund, K M; Ehrlich, R; Elia, R; Foland, A D; Gaidarev, P; Galik, R S; Gittelman, B; Gray, S W; Hartill, D L; Heltsley, B K; Hopman, P I; Kandaswamy, J; Katayama, N; Kim, P C; Kreinick, D L; Lee, T; Liu, Y; Ludwig, G S; Masui, J; Mevissen, J; Mistry, N B; Ng, C R; Nordberg, E; Ogg, M; Patterson, J R; Peterson, D; Riley, D; Soffer, A; Ward, C ^[7]; Athanas, M; Avery, P; Jones, C D; Lohner, M; Prescott, C; Yelton, J; Zheng, J ^[8]; Brandenburg, G; Briere, R A; Gao, Y S; Kim, D Y; Wilson, R; Yamamoto, H ^[9]

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1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061 (United States)
2. Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48202 (United States)
3. California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125 (United States)
4. University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093 (United States)
5. University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106 (United States)
6. University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0390 (United States)
7. Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853 (United States)
8. University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611 (United States)
9. Harvard University, Cambridge (United States)

We use the CLEO detector at the Cornell e{sup +}e{sup {minus}} storage ring, CESR, to search for the two-photon production of the glueball candidate f{sub J}(2220) in its decay to K{sub s}K{sub s} . We present a restrictive upper limit on the product of the two-photon partial width and the K{sub s}K{sub s} branching fraction, ({Gamma}{sub {gamma}{gamma}}B{sub K{sub s}K{sub s}}){sub f{sub J(2220) }} . We use this limit to calculate a lower limit on the stickiness, which is a measure of the two-gluon coupling relative to the two-photon coupling. This limit on stickiness indicates that the f{sub J}(2220) has substantial glueball content. {copyright} {ital 1997} {ital The American Physical Society}

• OSTI ID: 628718
• Journal Information: Physical Review Letters, Vol. 79, Issue 20; Other Information: PBD: Nov 1997
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

66 PHYSICS
GLUEBALLS
PHOTOPRODUCTION
ELECTRON-POSITRON INTERACTIONS
STORAGE RINGS
KAONS
BRANCHING RATIO
COUPLING
MONTE CARLO METHOD
SIMULATION
PARTICLE DECAY