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The European Physical Journal C, 2012
Eur Phys J C, 2011
The nature of the X(3872) enhancement is analyzed in the framework of the Resonance-Spectrum Expansion, by studying it as a regular J PC =1++ charmonium state, though strongly influenced and shifted by open-charm decay channels. The observed but Okubo-Zweig-Iizuka-forbidden ρ 0 J/ ψ and ωJ/ ψ channels are coupled as well, but effectively smeared out by using complex ρ 0 and ω masses, in order to account for their physical widths, followed by a rigorous algebraic procedure to restore unitarity. A very delicate interplay between the D 0 D ∗0, ρ 0 J/ ψ, and ωJ/ ψ channels is observed. The data clearly suggest that the X(3872) is a very narrow axial-vector cbar{c} resonance, with a pole at or slightly below the D 0 D ∗0 threshold.
Physical review letters, 2014
With data samples collected with the BESIII detector operating at the BEPCII storage ring at center-of-mass energies from 4.009 to 4.420 GeV, the process e+e-→ γX(3872) is observed for the first time with a statistical significance of 6.3σ. The measured mass of the X(3872) is (3871.9 ± 0.7s tat ± 0.2 syst) MeV/c(2), in agreement with previous measurements. Measurements of the product of the cross section σ[e+e- → γX(3872)] and the branching fraction B[X(3872)→π+π-J/ψ] at center-of-mass energies 4.009, 4.229, 4.260, and 4.360 GeV are reported. Our measurements are consistent with expectations for the radiative transition process Y(4260) → γX(3872).
2012
The European Physical Journal C, 2015
X(3872) still presents many puzzles more than a decade after its discovery. Some of its properties, like the isospin violating decays, can easily be accommodated in a molecular model, whereas its other properties, such as radiative decays can be more naturally explained in the quarkonium picture. The best of these schemes can be combined in a picture of X(3872) where it is dominantly a molecular state with some charmonium components. In this work, we present a model based on heavy quark symmetry which describes X(3872) as a superposition of molecular and charmonium components.
Physical Review D, 2006
Physical Review Letters, 2004
Physical Review Letters, 2004
We report the observation of the X(3872) in the J/ψπ+π- channel, with J/ψ decaying to μ+μ-, in pp¯ collisions at √(s)=1.96 TeV. Using approximately 230 pb-1 of data collected with the RunII D0 detector, we observe 522±100 X(3872) candidates. The mass difference between the X(3872) state and the J/ψ is measured to be 774.9±3.1(stat)±3.0(syst) MeV/c2. We have investigated the production and decay characteristics of the X(3872) and find them to be similar to those of the ψ(2S) state.
Physical Review Letters, 2009
Physical Review Letters, 2004
Physical review …, 2004
Physical Review Letters, 2006
Physical Review Letters, 2004
Physical Review Letters, 2004
Physical Review D, 2006
Physical Review Letters, 2003
Physical Review D, 2009
Physical Review D, 2007
Physics Letters B, 2006
Arxiv preprint arXiv:1109.1095, 2011
The European Physical Journal C, 2011
Acta Physica Polonica B, Proceedings Supplement, 2012
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine, 2015
IFAE 2007, 2008