Observation of Bs Production at the Υ(5S) Resonance

G. Bonvicini, D. Cinabro, M. Dubrovin, A. Lincoln, A. Bornheim, S. P. Pappas, A. J. Weinstein, D. M. Asner, K. W. Edwards, R. A. Briere, G. P. Chen, J. Chen, T. Ferguson, G. Tatishvili, H. Vogel, M. E. Watkins, J. L. Rosner, N. E. Adam, J. P. Alexander, K. BerkelmanD. G. Cassel, V. Crede, J. E. Duboscq, K. M. Ecklund, R. Ehrlich, L. Fields, L. Gibbons, B. Gittelman, R. Gray, S. W. Gray, D. L. Hartill, B. K. Heltsley, D. Hertz, C. D. Jones, J. Kandaswamy, D. L. Kreinick, V. E. Kuznetsov, H. Mahlke-Krüger, T. O. Meyer, P. U.E. Onyisi, J. R. Patterson, D. Peterson, E. A. Phillips, J. Pivarski, D. Riley, A. Ryd, A. J. Sadoff, H. Schwarthoff, X. Shi, M. R. Shepherd, S. Stroiney, W. M. Sun, D. Urner, T. Wilksen, K. M. Weaver, M. Weinberger, S. B. Athar, P. Avery, L. Breva-Newell, R. Patel, V. Potlia, H. Stoeck, J. Yelton, P. Rubin, C. Cawlfield, B. I. Eisenstein, G. D. Gollin, I. Karliner, D. Kim, N. Lowrey, P. Naik, C. Sedlack, M. Selen, E. J. White, J. Williams, J. Wiss, D. Besson, T. K. Pedlar, D. Cronin-Hennessy, K. Y. Gao, D. T. Gong, J. Hietala, Y. Kubota, T. Klein, B. W. Lang, S. Z. Li, R. Poling, A. W. Scott, A. Smith, S. Dobbs, Z. Metreveli, K. K. Seth, A. Tomaradze, P. Zweber, J. Ernst, K. Arms, H. Severini, S. A. Dytman, W. Love, S. Mehrabyan, J. A. Mueller, V. Savinov, Z. Li, A. Lopez, H. Mendez, J. Ramirez, G. S. Huang, D. H. Miller, V. Pavlunin, B. Sanghi, I. P.J. Shipsey, G. S. Adams, M. Anderson, J. P. Cummings, I. Danko, J. Napolitano, Q. He, H. Muramatsu, C. S. Park, E. H. Thorndike, T. E. Coan, Y. S. Gao, F. Liu, Y. Maravin, M. Artuso, C. Boulahouache, S. Blusk, J. Butt, O. Dorjkhaidav, J. Li, N. Menaa, R. Mountain, R. Nandakumar, K. Randrianarivony, R. Redjimi, R. Sia, T. Skwarnicki, S. Stone, J. C. Wang, K. Zhang, S. E. Csorna

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Abstract

Using the CLEO detector at the Cornell Electron Storage Ring, we have observed the Bs meson in e+e- annihilation at the Υ(5S) resonance. We find 14 candidates consistent with Bs decays into final states with a J/ψ or a Ds(*)-. The probability that we have observed a background fluctuation is less than 8×10-10. We have established that at the energy of the Υ(5S) resonance Bs production proceeds predominantly through the creation of Bs*B̄s* pairs. We find σ(e+e-→Bs*B̄s*)=[0.11-0.03+0.04(stat)±0.02(syst)]nb, and set the following limits: σ(e+e-→BsB̄s)/σ (e+e-→Bs*B̄s*)<0.16 and [σ(e+e-→BsB̄s*) +σ(e+e-→Bs*B̄s)]/σ(e+e-→Bs*B̄ s*)<0.16 (90% C.L.). The mass of the Bs* meson is measured to be MBs*=[5.414±0.001(stat)±0.003(syst)]GeV/c2.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number022002
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume96
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 20 2006

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Physics and Astronomy

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