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Title: Search for narrow resonances below the {upsilon} mesons

Abstract

We have investigated the invariant mass spectrum of dimuons collected by the CDF experiment during the 1992-1995 run of the Fermilab Tevatron collider to improve the limit on the existence of narrow resonances set by the experiments at the SPEAR e{sup +}e{sup -} collider. In the mass range 6.3-9.0 GeV/c{sup 2}, we derive 90% upper credible limits to the ratio of the production cross section times muonic branching fraction of possible narrow resonances to that of the {upsilon}(1S) meson. In this mass range, the average limit varies from 1.7 to 0.5%. This limit is much worse at the mass of 7.2 GeV/c{sup 2} due to an excess of 250{+-}61 events with a width consistent with the detector resolution.

Authors:
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  1. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510 (United States)
  2. Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Frascati (Italy)
  3. Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720 (United States)
  4. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, University and Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, I-56100 Pisa (Italy)
  5. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Universita di Padova, Sezione di Padoova, I-35131, Padova (Italy)
  6. Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 (United States)
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OSTI Identifier:
20713804
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Journal Name: Physical Review. D, Particles Fields; Journal Volume: 72; Journal Issue: 9; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.72.092003; (c) 2005 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; BRANCHING RATIO; ELECTRON-POSITRON INTERACTIONS; ETA MESONS; FERMILAB COLLIDER DETECTOR; GEV RANGE; LEPTONIC DECAY; MASS SPECTRA; PARTICLE IDENTIFICATION; PARTICLE WIDTHS; RESOLUTION; RESONANCE PARTICLES; REST MASS; UPSILON-9460 MESONS

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Apollinari, G., Velev, G., Barone, M., Giromini, P., Happacher, F., Miscetti, S., Parri, A., Ptohos, F., Carithers, W., Dell'Orso, M., Fiori, I., Giannetti, P., Dorigo, T., and Franklin, M. Search for narrow resonances below the {upsilon} mesons. United States: N. p., 2005. Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.72.092003.
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Apollinari, G., Velev, G., Barone, M., Giromini, P., Happacher, F., Miscetti, S., Parri, A., Ptohos, F., Carithers, W., Dell'Orso, M., Fiori, I., Giannetti, P., Dorigo, T., & Franklin, M. Search for narrow resonances below the {upsilon} mesons. United States. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.72.092003.
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Apollinari, G., Velev, G., Barone, M., Giromini, P., Happacher, F., Miscetti, S., Parri, A., Ptohos, F., Carithers, W., Dell'Orso, M., Fiori, I., Giannetti, P., Dorigo, T., and Franklin, M. Tue . "Search for narrow resonances below the {upsilon} mesons". United States. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.72.092003.
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@article{osti_20713804,
title = {Search for narrow resonances below the {upsilon} mesons},
author = {Apollinari, G. and Velev, G. and Barone, M. and Giromini, P. and Happacher, F. and Miscetti, S. and Parri, A. and Ptohos, F. and Carithers, W. and Dell'Orso, M. and Fiori, I. and Giannetti, P. and Dorigo, T. and Franklin, M.},
abstractNote = {We have investigated the invariant mass spectrum of dimuons collected by the CDF experiment during the 1992-1995 run of the Fermilab Tevatron collider to improve the limit on the existence of narrow resonances set by the experiments at the SPEAR e{sup +}e{sup -} collider. In the mass range 6.3-9.0 GeV/c{sup 2}, we derive 90% upper credible limits to the ratio of the production cross section times muonic branching fraction of possible narrow resonances to that of the {upsilon}(1S) meson. In this mass range, the average limit varies from 1.7 to 0.5%. This limit is much worse at the mass of 7.2 GeV/c{sup 2} due to an excess of 250{+-}61 events with a width consistent with the detector resolution.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.72.092003},
journal = {Physical Review. D, Particles Fields},
number = 9,
volume = 72,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Nov 01 00:00:00 EST 2005},
month = {Tue Nov 01 00:00:00 EST 2005}
}
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DOI:  10.1103/PhysRevD.72.092003
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