93 research outputs found
Tau and Charm physics highlights
In tau physics, we are at the frontier between the completion of the LEP
program and the start of analyses from b-factories, which are expected to
produce results in the coming years. Nice results from CLEO are steadily
delivered in the meantime. For charm, impressive progress have been achieved by
fixed target experiments in the search for CP violation and D^0 - \bar D^0
oscillations. First results from b-factories demonstrate the power of these
facilities in such areas. The novel measurement of the D* width by CLEO happens
to be rather different from current expectations. The absence of a charm
factory explains the lack or the very slow progress in the absolute scale
determinations for charm decays.Comment: "Typos corrected and references added
1-- and 0++ heavy four-quark and molecule states in QCD
We estimate the masses of the 1^{--} heavy four-quark and molecule states by
combining exponential Laplace (LSR) and finite energy (FESR) sum rules known
perturbatively to lowest order (LO) in alpha_s but including non-perturbative
terms up to the complete dimension-six condensate contributions. This approach
allows to fix more precisely the value of the QCD continuum threshold (often
taken ad hoc) at which the optimal result is extracted.
We use double ratio of sum rules (DRSR) for determining the SU(3) breakings
terms. We also study the effects of the heavy quark mass definitions on these
LO results.
The SU(3) mass-splittings of about (50 - 110) MeV and the ones of about (250
- 300) MeV between the lowest ground states and their 1st radial excitations
are (almost) heavy-flavour independent.
The mass predictions summarized in Table 4 are compared with the ones in the
literature (when available) and with the three Y_c(4260,~4360,~4660) and
Y_b(10890) 1^{--} experimental candidates. We conclude (to this order
approximation) that the lowest observed state cannot be a pure 1^{--}
four-quark nor a pure molecule but may result from their mixings. We extend the
above analyzes to the 0^{++} four-quark and molecule states which are about
(0.5-1) GeV heavier than the corresponding 1^{--} states, while the splittings
between the 0^{++} lowest ground state and the 1st radial excitation is about
(300-500) MeV. We complete the analysis by estimating the decay constants of
the 1^{--} and 0^{++} four-quark states which are tiny and which exhibit a
1/M_Q behaviour.
Our predictions can be further tested using some alternative non-perturbative
approaches or/and at LHCb and some other hadron factories.Comment: 13 pages, 15 figures, 4 tables, version to appear in PLB (more
general choice of the interpolating currents, estimate of the four-quark
meson decay constants, new references added, slight numerical changes for the
0++ mass predictions
Anti-Search for the Glueball Candidate f_J(2220) in Two-Photon Interactions
Using 13.3 fb^{-1} of e^+e^- data recorded with the CLEO II and CLEO II.V
detector configurations at CESR, we have searched for f_J(2220) decays to
K^0_{S} K^0_{S} in untagged two-photon interactions. We report an upper limit
on the product of the two-photon partial width and the branching fraction,
Gamma_gamma gamma cdot B (f_J(2220) to K^0_{S} K^0_{S}) of less than 1.1 eV at
the 95% C.L: systematic uncertainties are included. This dataset is four times
larger than that used in the previous CLEO publication.Comment: 10 pages postscript, also available through
http://w4.lns.cornell.edu/public/CLNS, Submitted to PRD (R
Study of the B^0 Semileptonic Decay Spectrum at the Upsilon(4S) Resonance
We have made a first measurement of the lepton momentum spectrum in a sample
of events enriched in neutral B's through a partial reconstruction of B0 -->
D*- l+ nu. This spectrum, measured with 2.38 fb**-1 of data collected at the
Upsilon(4S) resonance by the CLEO II detector, is compared directly to the
inclusive lepton spectrum from all Upsilon(4S) events in the same data set.
These two spectra are consistent with having the same shape above 1.5 GeV/c.
From the two spectra and two other CLEO measurements, we obtain the B0 and B+
semileptonic branching fractions, b0 and b+, their ratio, and the production
ratio f+-/f00 of B+ and B0 pairs at the Upsilon(4S). We report b+/b0=0.950
(+0.117-0.080) +- 0.091, b0 = (10.78 +- 0.60 +- 0.69)%, and b+ = (10.25 +- 0.57
+- 0.65)%. b+/b0 is equivalent to the ratio of charged to neutral B lifetimes,
tau+/tau0.Comment: 14 page, postscript file also available at
http://w4.lns.cornell.edu/public/CLN
Update of the Search for the Neutrinoless Decay
We present an update of the search for the lepton family number violating
decay using a complete CLEO II data sample of 12.6 million
pairs. No evidence of a signal has been found and the
corresponding upper limit is \BR(\tau \to \mu\gamma) < 1.0 \times 10^{-6}
at 90% CL, significantly smaller than previous limits. All quoted results are
preliminary.Comment: 9 pages postscript, also available through
http://w4.lns.cornell.edu/public/CLN
Radiative Decay Modes of the Meson
Using data recorded by the CLEO-II detector at CESR we have searched for four
radiative decay modes of the meson: ,
, , and . We
obtain 90% CL upper limits on the branching ratios of these modes of , , and
respectively.Comment: 15 page postscript file, postscript file also available through
http://w4.lns.cornell.edu/public/CLN
Measurement of the Mass Splittings between the States
We present new measurements of photon energies and branching fractions for
the radiative transitions: Upsilon(2S)->gamma+chi_b(J=0,1,2). The masses of the
chi_b states are determined from the measured radiative photon energies. The
ratio of mass splittings between the chi_b substates,
r==(M[J=2]-M[J=1])/(M[J=1]-M[J=0]) with M the chi_b mass, provides information
on the nature of the bbbar confining potential. We find
r(1P)=0.54+/-0.02+/-0.02. This value is in conflict with the previous world
average, but more consistent with the theoretical expectation that r(1P)<r(2P);
i.e., that this mass splittings ratio is smaller for the chi_b(1P) triplet than
for the chi_b(2P) triplet.Comment: 11 page postscript file, postscript file also available through
http://w4.lns.cornell.edu/public/CLN
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