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Title: Observation of the helicity-selection-rule suppressed decay of the χ c 2 charmonium state

Abstract

The decays of χ c 2 → K+K-π0, KSK±π, and π+π-π0 are studied with the ψ ( 3686 ) data samples collected with the Beijing Spectrometer (BESIII). For the first time, the branching fractions of χ c 2 → K*$$\bar{K}$$ , χ c 2 → $$a_2^±$$(1320)π/$$a_2^0$$(1320)π0, and χ c 2 → ρ( 770 )±π are measured. Here, K*$$\bar{K}$$ denotes both K*±K and its isospin-conjugated process K*0$$\bar{K}$$0+c.c., and K* denotes the resonances K*(892), $$K_2^*$$(1430), and $$K_3^*$$(1780). The observations indicate a strong violation of the helicity selection rule in χ c 2 decays into vector and pseudoscalar meson pairs. The measured branching fractions of χ c 2 → K*(892)$$\bar{K}$$ are more than ten times larger than the upper limit of χ c 2 → ρ ( 770 )±π, which is so far the first direct observation of a significant U -spin symmetry breaking effect in charmonium decays.

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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
George Washington Univ., Washington, DC (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)
Contributing Org.:
BESIII Collaboration
OSTI Identifier:
1440857
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1411808
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0016583; FG02-05ER41374; SC-0010118; SC-0010504; SC-0012069
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physical Review D
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 96; Journal Issue: 11; Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS; BESIII

Citation Formats

Ablikim, M., Achasov, M. N., Ahmed, S., Ai, X. C., Albayrak, O., Albrecht, M., Ambrose, D. J., Amoroso, A., An, F. F., An, Q., Bai, J. Z., Bakina, O., Baldini Ferroli, R., Ban, Y., Bennett, D. W., Bennett, J. V., Berger, N., Bertani, M., Bettoni, D., Bian, J. M., Bianchi, F., Boger, E., Boyko, I., Briere, R. A., Cai, H., Cai, X., Cakir, O., Calcaterra, A., Cao, G. F., Cetin, S. A., Chai, J., Chang, J. F., Chelkov, G., Chen, G., Chen, H. S., Chen, J. C., Chen, M. L., Chen, S., Chen, S. J., Chen, X., Chen, X. R., Chen, Y. B., Chu, X. K., Cibinetto, G., Dai, H. L., Dai, J. P., Dbeyssi, A., Dedovich, D., Deng, Z. Y., Denig, A., Denysenko, I., Destefanis, M., De Mori, F., Ding, Y., Dong, C., Dong, J., Dong, L. Y., Dong, M. Y., Dou, Z. L., Du, S. X., Duan, P. F., Fan, J. Z., Fang, J., Fang, S. S., Fang, X., Fang, Y., Farinelli, R., Fava, L., Feldbauer, F., Felici, G., Feng, C. Q., Fioravanti, E., Fritsch, M., Fu, C. D., Gao, Q., Gao, X. L., Gao, Y., Gao, Z., Garzia, I., Goetzen, K., Gong, L., Gong, W. X., Gradl, W., Greco, M., Gu, M. H., Gu, Y. T., Guan, Y. H., Guo, A. Q., Guo, L. B., Guo, R. P., Guo, Y., Guo, Y. P., Haddadi, Z., Hafner, A., Han, S., Hao, X. Q., Harris, F. A., He, K. L., Heinsius, F. H., Held, T., Heng, Y. K., Holtmann, T., Hou, Z. L., Hu, C., Hu, H. M., Hu, T., Hu, Y., Huang, G. S., Huang, J. S., Huang, X. T., Huang, X. Z., Huang, Z. L., Hussain, T., Ikegami Andersson, W., Ji, Q., Ji, Q. P., Ji, X. B., Ji, X. L., Jiang, L. W., Jiang, X. S., Jiang, X. Y., Jiao, J. B., Jiao, Z., Jin, D. P., Jin, S., Johansson, T., Julin, A., Kalantar-Nayestanaki, N., Kang, X. L., Kang, X. S., Kavatsyuk, M., Ke, B. C., Kiese, P., Kliemt, R., Kloss, B., Kolcu, O. B., Kopf, B., Kornicer, M., Kupsc, A., Kühn, W., Lange, J. S., Lara, M., Larin, P., Leithoff, H., Leng, C., Li, C., Li, Cheng, Li, D. M., Li, F., Li, F. Y., Li, G., Li, H. B., Li, H. J., Li, J. C., Li, Jin, Li, K., Li, K., Li, Lei, Li, P. R., Li, Q. 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abstractNote = {The decays of χc2 → K+K-π0, KSK±π∓, and π+π-π0 are studied with the ψ ( 3686 ) data samples collected with the Beijing Spectrometer (BESIII). For the first time, the branching fractions of χc2 → K*$\bar{K}$ , χc2 → $a_2^±$(1320)π∓/$a_2^0$(1320)π0, and χc2 → ρ( 770 )±π∓ are measured. Here, K*$\bar{K}$ denotes both K*±K∓ and its isospin-conjugated process K*0$\bar{K}$0+c.c., and K* denotes the resonances K*(892), $K_2^*$(1430), and $K_3^*$(1780). The observations indicate a strong violation of the helicity selection rule in χc2 decays into vector and pseudoscalar meson pairs. The measured branching fractions of χc2 → K*(892)$\bar{K}$ are more than ten times larger than the upper limit of χc2 → ρ ( 770 )±π∓, which is so far the first direct observation of a significant U -spin symmetry breaking effect in charmonium decays.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.96.111102},
journal = {Physical Review D},
number = 11,
volume = 96,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 2017},
month = {Fri Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 2017}
}

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FIG. 1 FIG. 1: (color online) Invariant mass distribution of (a) K+Kπ0 and (b) KSK±π for the decay $ψ$ (3686) →γK $\bar{K}$π, and the corresponding Dalitz distributions (c) and (d) for the candidates within |MKKπ -M$_{χc2}$| < 15 MeV/c2. The dots with error bars are for data, the blue solid curves aremore » the overall fit results, the red dotted curves are the signals, and the green shaded areas are the background.« less

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