Observation of an Excess of Dicharmonium Events in the Four-Muon Final State with the ATLAS Detector


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Aad G., Abbott B., Abeling K., Abicht N., Abidi S., Aboulhorma A., ...Daha Fazla

Physical review letters, cilt.131, sa.15, ss.151902, 2023 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 131 Sayı: 15
  • Basım Tarihi: 2023
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1103/physrevlett.131.151902
  • Dergi Adı: Physical review letters
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, Aerospace Database, Chemical Abstracts Core, Compendex, INSPEC, zbMATH, DIALNET
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.151902
  • İstanbul Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

A search is made for potential ccc[over ¯]c[over ¯] tetraquarks decaying into a pair of charmonium states in the four muon final state using proton-proton collision data at sqrt[s]=13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 140 fb^{-1} recorded by the ATLAS experiment at LHC. Two decay channels, J/ψ+J/ψ→4μ and J/ψ+ψ(2S)→4μ, are studied. Backgrounds are estimated based on a hybrid approach involving Monte Carlo simulations and data-driven methods. Statistically significant excesses with respect to backgrounds dominated by the single parton scattering are seen in the di-J/ψ channel consistent with a narrow resonance at 6.9 GeV and a broader structure at lower mass. A statistically significant excess is also seen in the J/ψ+ψ(2S) channel. The fitted masses and decay widths of the structures are reported.