Jun 13 – 17, 2011
Künstlerhaus
Europe/Berlin timezone
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Measuring the phase between strong and EM J/psi decay amplitudes

Jun 13, 2011, 4:30 PM
20m
Club 1 (Künstlerhaus)

Club 1

Künstlerhaus

talk Quarkonia Quarkonia

Speaker

Prof. Marco Maggiora (INFN Torino)

Description

Experimental data in various channels show that in $J/\psi$ decay, strong and electromagnetic amplitudes seem to be orthogonal, while in the standard model they are expected to be both almost real. There has been the conjecture that the phase between strong and electromagnetic amplitudes is universally $-90^\circ$ in all decays of charmonium (quarkonium) $1^{--}$ states. However, so far the determination of this phase has been based mostly on theoretical assumptions about SU(3) symmetry. We propose to measure this phase directly by the scan of the energy region below the charmonium $1^{--}$ resonances. We present the theoretical basis of such measurement and analyze the feasibility and sensitivity for the data to be eventually taken by BES-III experiment.

Primary authors

Dr Ping Wang (IHEP, Beijing) Rinaldo Baldini (LNF, INFN, Italy)

Presentation materials