2005
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.94.012001
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Measurement of the Muonic Branching Fractions of the Narrow Upsilon Resonances

Abstract: The decay branching fractions of the three narrow Upsilon resonances to mu(+)mu(-) have been measured by analyzing about 4.3 fb(-1) e(+)e(-) data collected with the CLEO III detector. The branching fraction B(Upsilon(1S)-->mu(+)mu(-))=(2.49+/-0.02+/-0.07)% is consistent with the current world average, but B(Upsilon(2S)-->mu(+)mu(-))=(2.03+/-0.03+/-0.08)% and B(Upsilon(3S)-->mu(+)mu(-))=(2.39+/-0.07+/-0.10)% are significantly larger than prior results. These new muonic branching fractions imply a narrower total… Show more

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“…Adding to this discovery of suppression of particles at high transverse momentum, two very striking results were seen for open heavy flavor from the PHENIX experiment via the measurement of electrons from the semi-leptonic decays of hadrons carrying charm or bottom quarks [103,104,105,106]. First, heavy mesons, despite their large mass, exhibit a suppression at high transverse momentum compared to that expected from p + p collisions [104,115,116]. This suppression is similar to that of light mesons, which implies a substantial energy loss of fast heavy quarks while traversing the medium, see Fig.…”
Section: High-p T Hadron Suppression: Jet-quenchingmentioning
confidence: 95%
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“…Adding to this discovery of suppression of particles at high transverse momentum, two very striking results were seen for open heavy flavor from the PHENIX experiment via the measurement of electrons from the semi-leptonic decays of hadrons carrying charm or bottom quarks [103,104,105,106]. First, heavy mesons, despite their large mass, exhibit a suppression at high transverse momentum compared to that expected from p + p collisions [104,115,116]. This suppression is similar to that of light mesons, which implies a substantial energy loss of fast heavy quarks while traversing the medium, see Fig.…”
Section: High-p T Hadron Suppression: Jet-quenchingmentioning
confidence: 95%
“…22 [108,117,118]. From these theoretical frameworks, we learned that the gluon density dN g /dy must be approximately with that of v2 of π 0 and π ± in minimum-bias Au+Au collisions [38,104,107,108,115,116]. 1000, and the energy density of the matter created in the most central collisions must be approximately 15 GeV/fm 3 to account for the large suppression observed in the data [119,120].…”
Section: High-p T Hadron Suppression: Jet-quenchingmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Here R = 0.54 ± 0.05 is the branch ratio of charm quarks into final D 0 mesons measured in e + e − reactions [35]. T AA = 26.4 ± 0.5 mb −1 is the average nuclear overlap function in the most central (0-5% centrality) Pb+Pb collisions at √ s NN = 2.76…”
Section: B Yields Of Normal Identified Hadronsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…However, the inte-grated luminosity sampled in this run at RHIC was not sufficient for detailed measurements of open heavy-flavor observables. With the STAR experiment the production of D 0 mesons was investigated [169] in the transverse momentum range 0.1 < p t < 3 GeV/c, and electrons from heavy-flavor hadron decays were measured in the range 1 < p t < 10 GeV/c [173]. Within large uncertainties the d+Au data were consistent with data from pp collisions scaled by the number of binary collisions to account for the different collision geometry.…”
Section: Heavy Flavor In D+au Collisionsmentioning
confidence: 77%
“…With increasing charged particle multiplicity the resulting signal-to-background ratio becomes worse such that the difficulty of such a measurement increases from pp to proton/deuteron-nucleus to nucleus-nucleus collisions in which signal-to-background ratios of typically 1:1000 had to be coped with in the STAR experiment. With STAR, D 0 mesons have been reconstructed in their Kπ decay channel in d+Au [169] and, recently, in pp collisions [170]. A corresponding signal was observed in Au+Au collisions at low p t as well [171].…”
Section: The Star Approach To Open Heavy-flavor Measurementsmentioning
confidence: 98%