Search for a light Higgs resonance in radiative decays of the ϒ(1S) with a charm tag

A search is presented for the decay ϒ(1S)→γA[superscript 0], A[superscript 0] → c[bar over c], where A[superscript 0] is a candidate for the CP-odd Higgs boson of the next-to-minimal supersymmetric standard model. The search is based on data collected with the BABAR detector at the ϒ(2S) resonance....

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Main Authors: Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., Tisserand, V., Grauges, E., Palano, A., Eigen, G., Stugu, B., Brown, D. N., Kerth, L. T., Kolomensky, Yu. G., Lee, M. J., Lynch, G., Koch, H., Schroeder, T., Hearty, C., Mattison, T. S., McKenna, J. A., So, R. Y., Khan, A., Blinov, V. E., Buzykaev, A. R., Druzhinin, V. P., Golubev, V. B., Kravchenko, E. A., Onuchin, A. P., Serednyakov, S. I., Skovpen, Yu. I., Solodov, E. P., Todyshev, K. Yu., Lankford, A. J., Dey, B., Gary, J. W., Long, O., Franco Sevilla, M., Hong, T. M., Kovalskyi, D., Richman, J. D., West, C. A., Eisner, A. M., Lockman, W. S., Panduro Vazquez, W., Schumm, B. A., Seiden, A., Chao, D. S., Cheng, C. H., Echenard, B., Flood, K. T., Hitlin, D. G., Miyashita, T. S., Ongmongkolkul, P., Porter, F. C., Röhrken, M., Andreassen, R., Huard, Z., Meadows, B. T., Pushpawela, B. G., Sokoloff, M. D., Sun, L., Bloom, P. C., Ford, W. T., Gaz, A., Smith, J. G., Wagner, S. R., Ayad, R., Toki, W. H., Spaan, B., Bernard, D., Verderi, M., Playfer, S., Bettoni, D., Bozzi, C., Calabrese, R., Cibinetto, G., Fioravanti, E., Garzia, I., Luppi, E., Piemontese, L., Santoro, V., Calcaterra, A., de Sangro, R., Finocchiaro, G., Martellotti, S., Patteri, P., Peruzzi, I. M., Piccolo, M., Rama, M., Zallo, A., Contri, R., Monge, M. R., Passaggio, S., Patrignani, C., Bhuyan, B., Prasad, V., Adametz, A., Uwer, U., Lacker, H. M., Mallik, U., Chen, C., Cochran, J., Prell, S., Ahmed, H., Gritsan, A. V., Arnaud, N., Davier, M., Derkach, D., Grosdidier, G., Le Diberder, F., Lutz, A. M., Malaescu, B., Roudeau, P., Stocchi, A., Wormser, G., Lange, D. J., Wright, D. M., Coleman, J. P., Fry, J. R., Gabathuler, E., Hutchcroft, D. E., Payne, D. J., Touramanis, C., Bevan, A. J., Di Lodovico, F., Sacco, R., Cowan, G., Davis, C. L., Denig, A. G., Fritsch, M., Gradl, W., Griessinger, K., Hafner, A., Schubert, K. R., Barlow, R. J., Lafferty, G. D., Cenci, R., Hamilton, B., Jawahery, A., Roberts, D. A., Cheaib, R., Patel, P. M., Robertson, S. H., Neri, N., Palombo, F., Cremaldi, L., Godang, R., Summers, D. J., Simard, M., Taras, P., De Nardo, G., Onorato, G., Sciacca, C., Raven, G., Jessop, C. P., LoSecco, J. M., Honscheid, K., Kass, R., Margoni, M., Morandin, M., Posocco, M., Rotondo, M., Simi, G., Simonetto, F., Stroili, R., Akar, S., Ben-Haim, E., Bomben, M., Bonneaud, G. R., Briand, H., Calderini, G., Chauveau, J., Leruste, Ph., Marchiori, G., Ocariz, J., Biasini, M., Manoni, E., Rossi, A., Angelini, C., Batignani, G., Bettarini, S., Carpinelli, M., Casarosa, G., Chrzaszcz, M., Forti, F., Giorgi, M. A., Lusiani, A., Oberhof, B., Paoloni, E., Rizzo, G., Walsh, J. J., Lopes Pegna, D., Olsen, J., Smith, A. J. S., Anulli, F., Faccini, R., Ferrarotto, F., Ferroni, F., Gaspero, M., Pilloni, A., Piredda, G., Bünger, C., Dittrich, S., Grünberg, O., Hess, M., Leddig, T., Voß, C., Waldi, R., Adye, T., Olaiya, E. O., Wilson, F. F., Emery, S., Vasseur, G., Aston, D., Bard, D. J., Cartaro, C., Convery, M. R., Dorfan, J., Dubois-Felsmann, G. P., Dunwoodie, W., Ebert, M., Field, R. C., Fulsom, B. G., Graham, M. T., Hast, C., Innes, W. R., Kim, P., Leith, D. W. G. S., Lindemann, D., Luitz, S., Luth, V., Lynch, H. L., MacFarlane, D. B., Muller, D. R., Neal, H., Perl, M., Pulliam, T., Ratcliff, B. N., Roodman, A., Schindler, R. H., Snyder, A., Su, D., Sullivan, M. K., Va’vra, J., Wisniewski, W. J., Wulsin, H. W., Purohit, M. V., Wilson, J. R., Randle-Conde, A., Sekula, S. J., Bellis, M., Burchat, P. R., Puccio, E. M. T., Alam, M. S., Ernst, J. A., Gorodeisky, R., Guttman, N., Peimer, D. R., Soffer, A., Spanier, S. M., Ritchie, J. L., Schwitters, R. F., Izen, J. M., Lou, X. C., Bianchi, F., De Mori, F., Filippi, A., Gamba, D., Lanceri, L., Vitale, L., Martinez-Vidal, F., Oyanguren, A., Villanueva-Perez, P., Albert, J., Banerjee, Sw., Beaulieu, A., Bernlochner, F. U., Choi, H. H. F., King, G. J., Kowalewski, R., Lewczuk, M. J., Lueck, T., Nugent, I. M., Roney, J. M., Sobie, R. J., Tasneem, N., Gershon, T. J., Harrison, P. F., Latham, T. E., Band, H. R., Dasu, S., Pan, Y., Prepost, R., Wu, S. L., Cowan, Ray F
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/96664
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Summary:A search is presented for the decay ϒ(1S)→γA[superscript 0], A[superscript 0] → c[bar over c], where A[superscript 0] is a candidate for the CP-odd Higgs boson of the next-to-minimal supersymmetric standard model. The search is based on data collected with the BABAR detector at the ϒ(2S) resonance. A sample of ϒ(1S) mesons is selected via the decay ϒ(2S) → π[superscript +]π[superscript -]ϒ(1S). The A[superscript 0] → c[bar over c] decay is identified through the reconstruction of hadronic D[superscript 0], D[superscript +], and D[superscript *](2010)[superscript +] meson decays. No significant signal is observed. The measured 90% confidence-level upper limits on the product branching fraction B(ϒ(1S) → γA[superscript 0]) × B(A[superscript 0] → c[bar over c]) range from 7.4 × 10[superscript -5] to 2.4 × 10[superscript -3] for A[superscript 0] masses from 4.00 to 8.95  GeV/c[superscript 2] and 9.10 to 9.25  GeV/c[superscript 2], where the region between 8.95 and 9.10  GeV/c[superscript 2] is excluded because of background from ϒ(2S) → γχ[subscript bJ](1P), χ[subscript bJ](1P) → γϒ(1S) decays.