Using events collected with the BESIII detector at the BEPCII collider, the decay in is observed. We determine the product branching fraction . This result is consistent with the lattice QCD calculation from HPQCD in 2023. By using the world-average values of and the total decay width of , the partial decay width is determined to be , which deviates from the corresponding world-average value by .
@article{osti_2564519,
author = {Ablikim, M. and Achasov, M. N. and Adlarson, P. and Ai, X. C. and Aliberti, R. and Amoroso, A. and An, Q. and Bai, Y. and Bakina, O. and Ban, Y. and others},
title = {Observation of the Charmonium Decay <math display='inline'> <mrow> <msub> <mrow> <mi>η</mi> </mrow> <mrow> <mi>c</mi> </mrow> </msub> <mo stretchy='false'>→</mo> <mi>γ</mi> <mi>γ</mi> </mrow> </math> in <math display='inline'> <mrow> <mi>J</mi> <mo>/</mo> <mi>ψ</mi> <mo stretchy='false'>→</mo> <mi>γ</mi> <msub> <mrow> <mi>η</mi> </mrow> <mrow> <mi>c</mi> </mrow> </msub> </mrow> </math>},
annote = { Using ( 2712.4 ± 14.3 ) × 10 6 ψ ( 3686 ) events collected with the BESIII detector at the BEPCII collider, the decay η c → γ γ in J / ψ → γ η c is observed. We determine the product branching fraction B ( J / ψ → γ η c ) × B ( η c → γ γ ) = ( 5.23 ± 0.2 6 stat ± 0.3 0 syst ) × 10 − 6 . This result is consistent with the lattice QCD calculation ( 5.34 ± 0.16 ) × 10 − 6 from HPQCD in 2023. By using the world-average values of B ( J / ψ → γ η c ) and the total decay width of η c , the partial decay width Γ ( η c → γ γ ) is determined to be ( 11.30 ± 0.5 6 stat ± 0.6 6 syst ± 1.1 4 ref ) keV , which deviates from the corresponding world-average value by 3.4 σ . Published by the American Physical Society 2025 },
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.181901},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/2564519},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
issn = {ISSN PRLTAO},
number = {18},
volume = {134},
place = {United States},
publisher = {American Physical Society},
year = {2025},
month = {05}}
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