Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Experiment
Scientific paper
2008-07-07
Phys.Rev.Lett.101:071801,2008; Erratum-ibid.102:029901,2009
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Experiment
7 pages, 4 postscript figures, submitted to PRL
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.071801
We report the results of a search for the bottomonium ground state eta_b(1S) in the photon energy spectrum with a sample of (109 +/- 1) million of Upsilon(3S) recorded at the Upsilon(3S) energy with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II B factory at SLAC. We observe a peak in the photon energy spectrum at E_gamma = 921.2 {+2.1} {-2.8} (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 Upsilon(3S) -> gamma eta_b(1S). This photon energy corresponds to an eta_b(1S) mass of $9388.9 {+3.1} {-2.3} (stat) +/- 2.7(syst) MeV/c2. The hyperfine Upsilon(1S)-eta_b(1S) mass splitting is 71.4 {+2.3} {-3.1} (stat) +/- 2.7(syst) MeV/c2. The branching fraction for this radiative Upsilon(3S) decay is estimated to be (4.8 +/- 0.5(stat) +/- 1.2 (syst)) x 10^(-4).
"The BABAR Collaboration
Aubert B.
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