Observation of a Narrow Charmoniumlike State in Exclusive B±→K±π+π-J/ψ Decays

By S. Choi, S. Olsen, K. Abe, T. Abe, I. Adachi, B. S. Ahn, H. Aihara, K. Akai, M. Akatsu, M. Akemoto and 163 more. 2003

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We report the observation of a narrow charmoniumlike state produced in the exclusive decay process ${B}^{\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}{K}^{\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}}{\ensuremath{\pi}}^{+}{\ensuremath{\pi}}^{\ensuremath{-}}J/\ensuremath{\psi}$. This state, which decays into ${\ensuremath{\pi}}^{+}{\ensuremath{\pi}}^{\ensuremath{-}}J/\ensuremath{\psi}$, has a mass of $3872.0\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.6\mathrm{(}\mathrm{s}\mathrm{t}\mathrm{a}\mathrm{t}\mathrm{)}\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.5\mathrm{(}\mathrm{s}\mathrm{y}\mathrm{s}\mathrm{t}\mathrm{)}\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{M}\mathrm{e}\mathrm{V}$, a value that is very near the ${M}_{{D}^{0}}+{M}_{{D}^{*0}}$ mass threshold. The results are based on an analysis of 152M $B$-$\overline{B}$ events collected at the $\ensuremath{\Upsilon}(4S)$ resonance in the Belle detector at the KEKB collider. The signal has a statistical significance that is in excess of $10\ensuremath{\sigma}$.

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