Phys. Rev. Lett.
64,
2226–2229
(1990)
Observation of Υ(4S) decays into non-BB¯ final states containing ψ mesons
J. Alexander et al.
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J. Alexander, M. Artuso, C. Bebek, K. Berkelman, D. G. Cassel, E. Cheu, D. M. Coffman, G. Crawford, J. W. DeWire, P. S. Drell, R. Ehrlich, R. S. Galik, B. Gittelman, S. W. Gray, A. M. Halling, D. L. Hartill, B. K. Heltsley, J. Kandaswamy, N. Katayama, D. L. Kreinick, J. D. Lewis, N. B. Mistry, J. Mueller, R. Namjoshi, S. Nandi, E. Nordberg, C. O’Grady, D. Peterson, M. Pisharody, D. Riley, M. Sapper, A. Silverman, S. Stone, H. Worden, M. Worris, A. J. Sadoff, P. Avery, D. Besson, L. Garren, J. Yelton, T. Bowcock, K. Kinoshita, F. M. Pipkin, M. Procario, Richard Wilson, J. Wolinski, D. Xiao, R. Ammar, P. Baringer, D. Coppage, P. Haas, Ha Lam, A. Jawahery, C. H. Park, Y. Kubota, J. K. Nelson, D. Perticone, R. Poling, R. Fulton, T. Jensen, D. R. Johnson, H. Kagan, R. Kass, F. Morrow, J. Whitmore, P. Wilson, W.-Y. Chen, J. Dominick, R. L. McIlwain, D. H. Miller, C. R. Ng, S. F. Schaffner, E. I. Shibata, W.-M. Yao, K. Sparks, E. H. Thorndike, C.-H. Wang, M. S. Alam, I. J. Kim, W. C. Li, X. C. Lou, C. R. Sun, P.-N. Wang, M. I. Zoeller, D. Bortoletto, M. Goldberg, N. Horwitz, V. Jain, M. D. Mestayer, G. C. Moneti, V. Sharma, I. P. J. Shipsey, T. Skwarnicki, M. Thulasidas, S. E. Csorna, and T. Letson
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853 Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York 14850 University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611 Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045 University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742 University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455 Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210 Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907 University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627 State University of New York at Albany, Albany, New York 12222 Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244 Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235
Received 17 January 1990; published in the issue dated 7 May 1990
We report on the observation of ψ mesons from Υ(4S) decays which are too energetic to come from B mesons. These events provide the first evidence for non-BB¯ decays of the Υ(4S). The measured rate is B[Υ(4s)→ψX]=(0.22±0.06±0.04)% for ψ momentum above 2 GeV/c.
© 1990 The American Physical Society
URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.64.2226
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.64.2226
PACS:
13.20.Gd, 13.25.+m, 13.65.+i
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