We present cross sections for the reaction at center-of-mass energies ranging from 3.51 to 4.95 GeV using data samples collected in the BESIII experiment, corresponding to a total integrated luminosity of . The ratio of neutral-to-charged kaon form factors at large momentum transfers ( ) is determined to be , which indicates a small but significant effect of flavor-SU(3) breaking in the kaon wave function, and, consequently, excludes the possibility that flavor-SU(3) breaking is the primary reason for the strong experimental violation of the pQCD prediction , where and are the form factors, and and are the decay constants of charged pions and kaons, respectively. We also observe a significant signal for the charmless decay for the first time. Within a contour of the likelihood value, the branching fraction for is determined to be , and the relative phase between the continuum and amplitudes is . The branching fraction is in good agreement with the - and -wave charmonia mixing scheme proposed in the interpretation of the “ puzzle” between and decays.
@article{osti_2328165,
author = {Ablikim, M. and Achasov, M. N. and Adlarson, P. and Ai, X. C. and Aliberti, R. and Amoroso, A. and An, M. R. and An, Q. and Bai, Y. and Bakina, O. and others},
title = {Observation of Significant Flavor-SU(3) Breaking in the Kaon Wave Function at <math display='inline'> <mrow> <mn>12</mn> <mo><</mo> <msup> <mrow> <mi>Q</mi> </mrow> <mrow> <mn>2</mn> </mrow> </msup> <mo><</mo> <mn>25</mn> <mtext> </mtext> <mtext> </mtext> <msup> <mrow> <mi>GeV</mi> </mrow> <mrow> <mn>2</mn> </mrow> </msup> </mrow> </math> and Discovery of the Charmless Decay <math display='inline'> <mrow> <mi>ψ</mi> <mo stretchy='false'>(</mo> <mn>3770</mn> <mo stretchy='false'>)</mo> <mo stretchy='false'>→</mo> <msubsup> <mrow> <mi>K</mi> </mrow> <mrow> <mi>S</mi> </mrow> <mrow> <mn>0</mn> </mrow> </msubsup> <msubsup> <mrow> <mi>K</mi> </mrow> <mrow> <mi>L</mi> </mrow> <mrow> <mn>0</mn> </mrow> </msubsup> </mrow> </math>},
annote = { We present cross sections for the reaction e + e − → K S 0 K L 0 at center-of-mass energies ranging from 3.51 to 4.95 GeV using data samples collected in the BESIII experiment, corresponding to a total integrated luminosity of 26.5 fb − 1 . The ratio of neutral-to-charged kaon form factors at large momentum transfers ( 12 Q 2 25 GeV 2 ) is determined to be 0.21 ± 0.01 , which indicates a small but significant effect of flavor-SU(3) breaking in the kaon wave function, and, consequently, excludes the possibility that flavor-SU(3) breaking is the primary reason for the strong experimental violation of the pQCD prediction | F ( π ± ) | / | F ( K ± ) | = f π 2 / f K 2 , where F ( π ± ) and F ( K ± ) are the form factors, and f π and f K are the decay constants of charged pions and kaons, respectively. We also observe a significant signal for the charmless decay ψ ( 3770 ) → K S 0 K L 0 for the first time. Within a 1 σ contour of the likelihood value, the branching fraction for ψ ( 3770 ) → K S 0 K L 0 is determined to be B = ( 2.6 3 − 1.59 + 1.40 ) × 10 − 5 , and the relative phase between the continuum and ψ ( 3770 ) amplitudes is ϕ = ( − 0.3 9 − 0.10 + 0.05 ) π . The branching fraction is in good agreement with the S - and D -wave charmonia mixing scheme proposed in the interpretation of the “ ρ π puzzle” between J / ψ and ψ ( 3686 ) decays. Published by the American Physical Society 2024 },
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.131901},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/2328165},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
issn = {ISSN PRLTAO},
number = {13},
volume = {132},
place = {United States},
publisher = {American Physical Society},
year = {2024},
month = {03}}
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