Publication: Observation of the electromagnetic doubly OZI-suppressed decay J/psi -> phi pi(0)
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Achasov, M. N.
Ai, X. C.
Albayrak, O.
Albrecht, M.
Ambrose, D. J.
Amoroso, A.
An, F. F.
An, Q.
Bai, J. Z.
Ferroli, R. Baldini
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Amer Physical
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Using a sample of 1.31 billion J/psi events accumulated with the BESIII detector at the BEPCII collider, we report the observation of the decay J/psi -> phi pi(0), which is the first evidence for a doubly Okubo-Zweig-Iizuka suppressed electromagnetic J/psi decay. A clear structure is observed in the K+K- mass spectrum around 1.02 GeV/c(2), which can be attributed to interference between J/psi -> phi pi(0) and J/psi -> K+K- pi(0) decays. Due to this interference, two possible solutions are found. The corresponding measured values of the branching fraction of J/psi -> phi pi(0) are [2.94 +/- 0.16(stat) +/- 0.16(syst)] x 10(-6) and [1.24 +/- 0.33(stat) +/- 0.30(syst)] x 10(-7).
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Vector, Astronomy & astrophysics, Physics