Upsilon meson


The Upsilon meson is a quarkonium state formed from a bottom quark and its antiparticle.
It was discovered by the E288 experiment team, headed by Leon Lederman, at Fermilab in 1977. It has a lifetime of and a mass about in the ground state.

Overview

There are many species of bottomonium known, but the ones generated by colliding beams are the ones generally referred to as upsilon mesons.
Thus, among the bound bottomonium species, the S-state triplet resonances are identified as upsilons, and are assigned the shorthand notations,,, etc., where the numbers 1, 2, 3 represent the principal quantum number n.
Alternatively, the notation parenthesizing the measured mass in MeV/c2 is used, e.g.. In the narrow sense, "Upsilon particle" refers strictly to the.
As clear from its quark structure, the Upsilon meson carries no charge or flavor, and has 0 isospin.
The zero spin state should have a lighter mass by about 0.1% to 1% according to quantum chromodynamics.

Discovery

Lederman's E288 experiment team at Fermilab had made a preliminary finding of a resonance at in November 1976, but was more reticent in announcing it because earlier they had prematurely announced a resonance event with their equipment in dielectron mode; this find did not pan out and ultimately could not be confirmed. However, with their equipment converted to dimuon mode with increased sensitivity upped 100 times, they began measurement in May 1977 and clearly confirmed resonance peaks at 9.4/9.5. 10. These peaks were verified by the German team using DESY's DORIS storage ring.
The upsilon was the first particle containing a bottom quark to be discovered because it is the lightest that can be produced without additional massive particles.

Resonant states

(1S)

Mass measured at
Lifeime of about > 10−20 calculated from measured energy width to.
The types of decay modes are diverse, with electron pair, muon pair, tauon pair decays each occurring at 2.5% frequency.
The short lifetime is calculable from the usual formula, so in the subsequent sections, the listing of the lifetimes will be eschewed.

(2S)

Mass measured at.
Here again, decay modes are diverse, decaying into and charged pion pair, approx. 20% of the time, into and neutral pair, approx. 10%, and into lepton pairs, about 2% each.
A B-factory at SLAC's PEP-II accelerator postponed the termination of operation by 2 months to conduct experiments starting February 2008 to generate and . While the data remained to be fully analyzed, the team announced in the fall of 2008 that they discovered the spin 0 ground state bottomonium corresponding to the spin 1 state. The published mass difference with was.

(3S)

Mass measured at
Again, diversely decaying into Υ + X, approx. 10% Υ + X, also lepton pairs, about 2% apiece, but e+e^ decay is quite rare.

(4S)

Also called 。
Nearly completely decays into B meson pairs, almost fifty–fifty between charged pairs and uncharged pairs.
Thus for B meson research, this mode of resonance is of great importance, and its research has been undertaken by various B-factories.。

(10860)

Also called Y.
Measured mass of
Main decay mode into B meson pairs only or with 1 or 2 pions, about 60% of the time, and into charm B meson pairs, about 20% of the time.
In this 2008 data report, the strange B meson decay is also tentatively reported. The energy threshold was also met by Japan's KEKB accelerator whose Belle B factory experiment also contemplated the strange B meson decay. The successes of Y research has led to the advent of studying Y at the higher luminosities From around 2008.

(11020)

Mass measured at.
The decay modes are unclear except a small percentage of electron pair decays, as of 2008.。