Measurement of the resonant and CP components in $\overline{B}^0\rightarrow J/\psi \pi^+\pi^-$ decays
R. Aaij
,
Y. Amhis
(1)
,
S. Barsuk
(1)
,
M. Borsato
(1)
,
O. Callot
(1)
,
J. He
(1)
,
O. Kochebina
(1)
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J. Lefrançois
(1)
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F. Machefert
(1)
,
A. Martin Sanchez
(1)
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M. Nicol
(1)
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P. Robbe
(1)
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M.-H. Schune
(1)
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M. Teklishyn
(1)
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A. Vallier
(1)
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B. Viaud
(1)
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E. Ben-Haim
(2)
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M. Benayoun
(2)
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P. David
(2)
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L. del Buono
(2)
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A. Martens
(2)
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D.A. Milanes
(2)
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F. Polci
(2)
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E. Aslanides
(3)
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J. Cogan
(3)
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W. Kanso
(3)
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R. Legac
(3)
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O. Leroy
(3)
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G. Mancinelli
(3)
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A. Mordà
(3, 4)
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M. Perrin-Terrin
(3)
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M. Sapunov
(3)
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J. Serrano
(3)
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A. Tsaregorodtsev
(3)
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Ziad Zj Ajaltouni
(5)
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M. Baalouch
(5)
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E. Cogneras
(5)
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O. Deschamps
(5)
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I. El Rifai
(5)
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M. Grabalosa Gándara
(5)
,
Pierre Henrard
(5)
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M. Hoballah
(5)
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R. Lefèvre
(5)
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J. Maratas
(5)
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S. Monteil
(5)
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V. Niess
(5)
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Pascal Perret
(5)
,
Diego Alejandro Roa Romero
(5)
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L. Beaucourt
(6)
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D. Decamp
(6)
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N. Déléage
(6)
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Ph. Ghez
(6)
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J.-P. Lees
(6)
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J.F. Marchand
(6)
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M.-N. Minard
(6)
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B. Pietrzyk
(6)
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W. Qian
(6)
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S. t'Jampens
(6)
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V. Tisserand
(6)
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E. Tournefier
(6)
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LAL -
Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire
2 LPNHE - Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies
3 CPPM - Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille
4 CPT - Centre de Physique Théorique - UMR 7332
5 LPC - Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire - Clermont-Ferrand
6 LAPP - Laboratoire d'Annecy de Physique des Particules
2 LPNHE - Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies
3 CPPM - Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille
4 CPT - Centre de Physique Théorique - UMR 7332
5 LPC - Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire - Clermont-Ferrand
6 LAPP - Laboratoire d'Annecy de Physique des Particules
R. Aaij
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J. He
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L. del Buono
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A. Martens
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J. Cogan
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O. Leroy
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M. Perrin-Terrin
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J. Serrano
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Ziad Zj Ajaltouni
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E. Cogneras
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O. Deschamps
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Pierre Henrard
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M. Hoballah
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Pascal Perret
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Diego Alejandro Roa Romero
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S. t'Jampens
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Abstract
The resonant structure of the reaction $\overline{B}^0\rightarrow J/\psi \pi^+\pi^-$ is studied using data from 3 fb$^{-1}$ of integrated luminosity collected by the LHCb experiment, one-third at 7 Tev center-of-mass energy and the remainder at 8 Tev. The invariant mass of the $\pi^+\pi^-$ pair and three decay angular distributions are used to determine the fractions of the resonant and non-resonant components. Six interfering $\pi^+\pi^-$ states: $\rho(770)$, $f_0(500)$, $f_2(1270)$, $\rho(1450)$, $\omega(782)$ and $\rho(1700)$ are required to give a good description of invariant mass spectra and decay angular distributions. The positive and negative CP fractions of each of the resonant final states are determined. The $f_0(980)$ meson is not seen and the upper limit on its presence, compared with the observed $f_0(500)$ rate, is inconsistent with a model of tetraquark substructure for these scalar mesons at the eight standard deviation level. In the $q\overline{q}$ model, the absolute value of the mixing angle between the $f_0(980)$ and the $f_0(500)$ scalar mesons is limited to be less than $17^{\circ}$ at 90% confidence level.