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Evidence for X (3872) →j/ψ π+ π-Produced in Single-Tag Two-Photon Interactions

  • (Belle Collaboration)
  • Osaka Metropolitan University
  • The Graduate University for Advanced Studies
  • High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Tsukuba
  • The University of Osaka
  • The University of Tokyo
  • King Abdulaziz University
  • University of Tabuk
  • Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • University of Cincinnati
  • Higher School of Economics
  • German Electron Synchrotron
  • Indian Institute of Technology Madras
  • University of Göttingen
  • University of Mississippi
  • Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali
  • Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
  • Charles University
  • Jožef Stefan Institute
  • Wayne State University
  • H. Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics
  • University of Maribor
  • University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
  • National Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • University of Naples Federico II
  • Fu Jen Catholic University
  • National Taiwan University
  • Max Planck Institute for Physics (Werner Heisenberg Institute)
  • National Central University
  • Hanyang University
  • RAS - P.N. Lebedev Physics Institute
  • Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information
  • Yonsei University
  • Gyeongsang National University
  • Sungkyunkwan University
  • Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad
  • Fudan University
  • RAS - Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics
  • Novosibirsk State University
  • Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
  • Panjab University
  • Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Abstract

We report the first evidence for X(3872) production in two-photon interactions by tagging either the electron or the positron in the final state, exploring the highly virtual photon region. The search is performed in e+e-→e+e-J/ψ π+ π-, using 825 fb-1 of data collected by the Belle detector operated at the KEKB e+e-collider. We observe three X(3872) candidates, where the expected background is 0.11±0.10 events, with a significance of 3.2σ. We obtain an estimated value for γB(X(3872)→J/ψ π+ π-) assuming the Q2 dependence predicted by a cc meson model, where-Q2 is the invariant mass squared of the virtual photon. No X(3915)→J/ψ π+ π-candidates are found.

Original languageEnglish
Article number122001
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume126
Issue number12
DOIs
StatePublished - 23 Mar 2021

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