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Phys. Rev. D 75, 011102(R) (2007) [5 pages]

Search for psi(2S)-->etacpi+pi-pi0

T. K. Pedlar,1 D. Cronin-Hennessy,2 K. Y. Gao,2 D. T. Gong,2 J. Hietala,2 Y. Kubota,2 T. Klein,2 B. W. Lang,2 R. Poling,2 A. W. Scott,2 A. Smith,2 P. Zweber,2 S. Dobbs,3 Z. Metreveli,3 K. K. Seth,3 A. Tomaradze,3 J. Ernst,4 H. Severini,5 S. A. Dytman,6 W. Love,6 V. Savinov,6 O. Aquines,7 Z. Li,7 A. Lopez,7 S. Mehrabyan,7 H. Mendez,7 J. Ramirez,7 G. S. Huang,8 D. H. Miller,8 V. Pavlunin,8 B. Sanghi,8 I. P. J. Shipsey,8 B. Xin,8 G. S. Adams,9 M. Anderson,9 J. P. Cummings,9 I. Danko,9 J. Napolitano,9 Q. He,10 J. Insler,10 H. Muramatsu,10 C. S. Park,10 E. H. Thorndike,10 F. Yang,10 T. E. Coan,11 Y. S. Gao,11 F. Liu,11 M. Artuso,12 S. Blusk,12 J. Butt,12 J. Li,12 N. Menaa,12 R. Mountain,12 S. Nisar,12 K. Randrianarivony,12 R. Redjimi,12 R. Sia,12 T. Skwarnicki,12 S. Stone,12 J. C. Wang,12 K. Zhang,12 S. E. Csorna,13 G. Bonvicini,14 D. Cinabro,14 M. Dubrovin,14 A. Lincoln,14 D. M. Asner,15 K. W. Edwards,15 R. A. Briere,16 I. Brock,16 J. Chen,16 T. Ferguson,16 G. Tatishvili,16 H. Vogel,16 M. E. Watkins,16 J. L. Rosner,17 N. E. Adam,18 J. P. Alexander,18 K. Berkelman,18 D. G. Cassel,18 J. E. Duboscq,18 K. M. Ecklund,18 R. Ehrlich,18 L. Fields,18 R. S. Galik,18 L. Gibbons,18 R. Gray,18 S. W. Gray,18 D. L. Hartill,18 B. K. Heltsley,18 D. Hertz,18 C. D. Jones,18 J. Kandaswamy,18 D. L. Kreinick,18 V. E. Kuznetsov,18 H. Mahlke-Krüger,18 P. U. E. Onyisi,18 J. R. Patterson,18 D. Peterson,18 J. Pivarski,18 D. Riley,18 A. Ryd,18 A. J. Sadoff,18 H. Schwarthoff,18 X. Shi,18 S. Stroiney,18 W. M. Sun,18 T. Wilksen,18 M. Weinberger,18 S. B. Athar,19 R. Patel,19 V. Potlia,19 J. Yelton,19 P. Rubin,20 C. Cawlfield,21 B. I. Eisenstein,21 I. Karliner,21 D. Kim,21 N. Lowrey,21 P. Naik,21 C. Sedlack,21 M. Selen,21 E. J. White,21 J. Wiss,21 M. R. Shepherd,22 and D. Besson23

(CLEO Collaboration)

1Luther College, Decorah, Iowa 52101, USA
2University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
3Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA
4State University of New York at Albany, Albany, New York 12222, USA
5University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019, USA
6University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA
7University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico 00681
8Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
9Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York 12180, USA
10University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA
11Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
12Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA
13Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235, USA
14Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48202, USA
15Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1S 5B6
16Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
17Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
18Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853
19University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
20George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia 22030, USA
21University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois 61801, USA
22Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA
23University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, USA

Rapid Received 13 November 2006; published 10 January 2007

Using 5.63 pb-1 of data accumulated at the psi(2S) resonance with the CLEO III and CLEO-c detectors corresponding to 3.08×106 psi(2S) decays, a search is performed for the decay psi(2S)-->etacpi+pi-pi0 to test a theoretical prediction based upon the assumption that the c[overline c] pair in the psi(2S) does not annihilate directly into three gluons but rather survives before annihilating. No signal is observed, and a combined upper limit from six etac decay modes is determined to be [script B](psi(2S)-->etacpi+pi-pi0)<=1.0×10-3 at 90% C.L. This upper limit is about an order of magnitude below the theoretical expectation.

©2007 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.75.011102
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.75.011102
PACS: 13.25.Gv; 13.66.Bc; 12.38.Qk
  • 13.25.Gv
    Hadronic decays of J/psi, Upsilon, and other quarkonia
  • 13.66.Bc
    Hadron production in ee+ interactions
  • 12.38.Qk
    Experimental tests of QCD
  • YEAR: 2007
KEYWORDS: meson hadronic decay, eta mesons, psi mesons

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