Measurement of the eta and eta' transition form factors at q**2 = 112-GeV**2.

The BaBar collaboration Aubert, Bernard ; Barate, R. ; Bona, M. ; et al.
Phys.Rev.D 74 (2006) 012002, 2006.
Inspire Record 716277 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.22085

We report a study of the processes e+e- -> eta gamma and e+e- -> etaprime gamma at a center-of-mass energy of 10.58 GeV, using a 232 fb^-1 data sample collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II collider at SLAC. We observe 20+6-5 eta gamma and 50+8-7 etaprime gamma events over small backgrounds, and measure the cross sections sigma(e+e- -> eta gamma) =4.5+1.2-1.1(stat)+-0.3(sys) fb and sigma(e+e- -> etaprime gamma)=5.4+-0.8(stat)+-0.3(sys) fb. The corresponding transition form factors at q^2 = 112 GeV^2 are q^2|F_eta(q^2)|=0.229+-0.030+-0.008 GeV, and q^2|F_etaprime(q^2)|=0.251+-0.019+-0.008 GeV, respectively.

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Measured cross sections.

Undressed cross sections calculated by applying a 7.5 +- 0.2 PCT correction for vacuum polarization.

Transition form factors at Q**2 = 112 GeV**2.


Evidence for spin one resonance production in the reaction gamma gamma* ---> pi+ pi- pi0 pi0

The TPC/Two Gamma collaboration Bauer, Daniel A. ; Belcinski, R. ; Berg, R.C. ; et al.
Phys.Rev.D 48 (1993) 3976-3987, 1993.
Inspire Record 353748 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.22574

Using data from the TPC/Two-Gamma experiment at the SLAC e+e− storage ring PEP, a C=+1 resonance has been observed in the π+π−π0γ final state resulting from the fusion of one nearly real and one quite virtual photon. The actual decay channel is probably π+π−π0π0, where one final-state photon is not detected, and the mass of the fully reconstructed state would be approximately 1525 MeV. A four-pion decay mode in turn implies that the resonance has even isospin. The nonobservation of this R(1525) when both initial-state photons are nearly real suggests a spin-1 assignment. Since the large measured value of the product of the branching ratio into π+π−π0π0 and the γγ coupling makes it unlikely that this state is the mostly s¯s f1(1510), its interpretation may lie outside of conventional meson spectroscopy. There is a second, less-significant enhancement observed in the same reaction at a four-pion mass centered around 2020 MeV.

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Coupling parameter times the effective form factor.