Phys. Rev. Lett.
101,
071801
(2008)
[7 pages]
Observation of the Bottomonium Ground State in the Decay Υ(3S)→γηb
B. Aubert et al. BABAR Collaboration
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B. Aubert1, M. Bona1, Y. Karyotakis1, J. P. Lees1, V. Poireau1, E. Prencipe1, X. Prudent1, V. Tisserand1, J. Garra Tico2, E. Grauges2, L. Lopez3, A. Palano3, M. Pappagallo3, G. Eigen4, B. Stugu4, L. Sun4, G. S. Abrams5, M. Battaglia5, D. N. Brown5, R. N. Cahn5, R. G. Jacobsen5, L. T. Kerth5, Yu. G. Kolomensky5, G. Lynch5, I. L. Osipenkov5, M. T. Ronan5,*, K. Tackmann5, T. Tanabe5, C. M. Hawkes6, N. Soni6, A. T. Watson6, H. Koch7, T. Schroeder7, D. Walker8, D. J. Asgeirsson9, B. G. Fulsom9, C. Hearty9, T. S. Mattison9, J. A. McKenna9, M. Barrett10, A. Khan10, V. E. Blinov11, A. D. Bukin11, A. R. Buzykaev11, V. P. Druzhinin11, V. B. Golubev11, A. P. Onuchin11, S. I. Serednyakov11, Yu. I. Skovpen11, E. P. Solodov11, K. Yu. Todyshev11, M. Bondioli12, S. Curry12, I. Eschrich12, D. Kirkby12, A. J. Lankford12, P. Lund12, M. Mandelkern12, E. C. Martin12, D. P. Stoker12, S. Abachi13, C. Buchanan13, J. W. Gary14, F. Liu14, O. Long14, B. C. Shen14,*, G. M. Vitug14, Z. Yasin14, L. Zhang14, V. 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1Laboratoire de Physique des Particules, IN2P3/CNRS et Université de Savoie, F-74941 Annecy-Le-Vieux, France 2Universitat de Barcelona, Facultat de Fisica, Departament ECM, E-08028 Barcelona, Spain 3INFN Sezione di Bari; Dipartmento di Fisica, Università di Bari, I-70126 Bari, Italy 4University of Bergen, Institute of Physics, N-5007 Bergen, Norway 5Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA 6University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, United Kingdom 7Ruhr Universität Bochum, Institut für Experimentalphysik 1, D-44780 Bochum, Germany 8University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TL, United Kingdom 9University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T 1Z1 10Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex UB8 3PH, United Kingdom 11Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia 12University of California at Irvine, Irvine, California 92697, USA 13University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90024, USA 14University of California at Riverside, Riverside, California 92521, USA 15University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA 16University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA 17University of California at Santa Cruz, Institute for Particle Physics, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA 18California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA 19University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221, USA 20University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA 21Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, USA 22Technische Universität Dortmund, Fakultät Physik, D-44221 Dortmund, Germany 23Technische Universität Dresden, Institut für Kern- und Teilchenphysik, D-01062 Dresden, Germany 24Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet, CNRS/IN2P3, Ecole Polytechnique, F-91128 Palaiseau, France 25University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ, United Kingdom 26INFN Sezione di Ferrara; Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Ferrara, I-44100 Ferrara, Italy 27INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, I-00044 Frascati, Italy 28INFN Sezione di Genova; Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, I-16146 Genova, Italy 29Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA 30Universität Heidelberg, Physikalisches Institut, Philosophenweg 12, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany 31Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Physik, Newtonstr. 15, D-12489 Berlin, Germany 32Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom 33University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA 34Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011-3160, USA 35Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA 36Laboratoire de l’Accélérateur Linéaire, IN2P3/CNRS et Université Paris-Sud 11, Centre Scientifique d’Orsay, B. 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Erratum

Received 7 July 2008; published 11 August 2008
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We report the results of a search for the bottomonium ground state ηb(1S) in the photon energy spectrum with a sample of (109±1) million of Υ(3S) recorded at the Υ(3S) energy with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II B factory at SLAC. We observe a peak in the photon energy spectrum at Eγ=921.2-2.8+2.1(stat)±2.4(syst) MeV with a significance of 10 standard deviations. We interpret the observed peak as being due to monochromatic photons from the radiative transition Υ(3S)→γηb(1S). This photon energy corresponds to an ηb(1S) mass of 9388.9-2.3+3.1(stat)±2.7(syst) MeV/c2. The hyperfine Υ(1S)-ηb(1S) mass splitting is 71.4-3.1+2.3(stat)±2.7(syst) MeV/c2. The branching fraction for this radiative Υ(3S) decay is estimated to be [4.8±0.5(stat)±1.2(syst)]×10-4.
© 2008 The American Physical Society
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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.071801
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.071801
PACS:
13.20.Gd, 14.40.Gx, 14.65.Fy
*Deceased. †Present and permanent address: Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA. ‡Present and permanent address: Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 69978, Israel. §Also at Università di Perugia, Dipartimento di Fisica, Perugia, Italy. **Also at Università di Roma La Sapienza, I-00185 Roma, Italy. ††Present and permanent address: University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL 36688, USA. ‡‡Also at Università di Sassari, Sassari, Italy.
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Erratum:
B. Aubert et al. BABAR Collaboration,
Erratum: Observation of the Bottomonium Ground State in the Decay Υ(3S)→γηb [Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 071801 (2008)],
Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 029901 (2009).
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