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Recently, the BESIII experiment performed a measurement of the energy-dependent Born cross section and the effective form factor for the e + e − → Ω − Ω ¯ + reaction at the center-of-mass energies ranging from 3.4 to 4.7 GeV. The energy dependence of the dressed cross section is fitted with the hypothesis of a charmonium(-like) resonance [i.e., ψ (3770), ψ (4040), ψ (4160), Y (4230), Y (4360), ψ (4415), or Y (4660)] combined with a power-law function. The fit is applied to the recent BESIII data, combined with the earlier measurements from CLEO-c data, but no significance is found. The products of the branching fractions and the two-electronic partial widths for the assumed charmonium(-like) states decaying into the Ω − Ω ¯ + final state are also provided. In addition, by taking the world average value of the two-electronic partial width, the upper limits at the 90% confidence level on the branching fractions of ψ (3770), ψ (4040), ψ (4160), and ψ (4415) decays into Ω − Ω ¯ + are determined for the first time. These are found to be at least an order of magnitude larger than expected from predictions using a scaling based on the observed electronic widths.
Authors
- X. F. Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8612-8045)
- Ruoyu Zhang
Institutions
- Center for Theoretical Physics (PL)
- Lanzhou University (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Nuclear Physics B
- Published
- 2026-03-07
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2026.117388
- Primary Topic
- Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00