Production of the X(3870) at the Upsilon(4S) by the Coalescence of Charm Mesons

dc.creatorBraaten, Eric
dc.creatorKusunoki, Masaoki
dc.date2004-02-17
dc.date2004-08-23
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T10:29:05Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T10:29:05Z
dc.descriptionIf the recently-discovered charmonium state X(3870) is a loosely-bound molecule of the charm mesons D^0 and \bar D^{*0} or \bar D^0 and D^{*0}, it can be produced in e^+ e^- annihilation at the Υ(4S) resonance by the coalescence of charm mesons produced in the decays of B^+ and B^- mesons. Remarkably, in the case of 2-body decays of the B mesons, the leading contribution to the coalescence probability depends only on hadron masses and on the width and branching fractions of the B meson. As the binding energy E_b of the molecule goes to zero, the coalescence probability scales as E_b^{1/2} log(E_b). Unfortunately, the coalescence probability is also suppressed by two powers of the ratio of the width to the mass of the B meson, and is therefore many orders of magnitude too small to be observed in current experiments at the B factories.
dc.description10 pages, revtex4, 1 figure
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0402177
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0402177
dc.identifierPhys.Rev.D69:114012,2004
dc.identifierdoi:10.1103/PhysRevD.69.114012
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/177673
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology
dc.titleProduction of the X(3870) at the Upsilon(4S) by the Coalescence of Charm Mesons
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