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Title: Measurement of the Branching Fractions for psi(2S) --> e+e- and psi(2S)-->mu+mu-

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/826705· OSTI ID:826705

The authors measure the branching fractions of the {psi}(2S) meson to the leptonic final states e{sup +}e{sup -} and {mu}{sup +}{mu}{sup -} relative to that for {psi}(2S) {yields} J/{psi} {pi}{sup +}{pi}{sup -}. The method uses {psi}(2S) mesons produced in the decay of B mesons at the {Upsilon}(4S) resonance in a data sample collected with the BABAR detector at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. Using previous measurements for the {psi}(2S) {yields} J/{psi} {pi}{sup +}{pi}{sup -} branching fraction, they determine the e{sup +}e{sup -} and {mu}{sup +}{mu}{sup -} branching fractions to be 0.0078 {+-} 0.0009 {+-} 0.0008 and 0.0067 {+-} 0.0008 {+-} 0.0007 respectively.

Research Organization:
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (US)
DOE Contract Number:
AC03-76SF00515
OSTI ID:
826705
Report Number(s):
SLAC-PUB-8953; TRN: US0404128
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: 10 Feb 2004
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English