Measurement of Prominent η-Decay Branching Fractions
Abstract
The decay ψ(2S)→ηJ/ψ is used to measure, for the first time, all prominent η-meson branching fractions with the same experiment in the same dataset, thereby providing a consistent treatment of systematics across branching fractions. We present results for η decays to γγ, π+π-π0, 3π0, π+π-γ and e+e-γ, accounting for 99.9% of all η decays. The precision of several of the branching fractions and their ratios is improved. Two channels, π+π-γ and e+e-γ, show results that differ at the level of three standard deviations from those previously determined.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- September 2007
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.122001
- arXiv:
- arXiv:0707.1601
- Bibcode:
- 2007PhRvL..99l2001L
- Keywords:
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- 14.40.Aq;
- 13.20.-v;
- 13.25.-k;
- pi K and eta mesons;
- Leptonic semileptonic and radiative decays of mesons;
- Hadronic decays of mesons;
- High Energy Physics - Experiment
- E-Print:
- 11 pages postscript,also available through http://www.lns.cornell.edu/public/CLNS/2007/, Submitted to PRL