Upsilon meson

There are many species of bottomonium known, but the ones generated by colliding beams (or proton–nucleus collisions decaying to + X) are the ones generally referred to as upsilon mesons. Thus, among the bound bottomonium species, the S-state triplet resonances are identified as upsilons, and are assigned the shorthand notations (S1), (S2), (S3), etc., where the numbers 1, 2, 3 represent the principal quantum number n. Alternatively, the notation parenthesizing the measured mass in MeV/c2 is used, e.g. (10860). In the narrow sense, "Upsilon particle" refers strictly to the (1S). As clear from its quark structure, the Upsilon meson carries no charge or flavor, and has 0 isospin. The zero spin state should have a lighter mass by about 0.1% to 1% according to quantum chromodynamics. == Discovery ==

Lederman's E288 experiment team at Fermilab had made a preliminary finding of a resonance at in November 1976, but was more reticent in announcing it because earlier they had prematurely announced a resonance event (which they were planning to name upsilon; cf. Oops-Leon) with their equipment in dielectron () mode; this find did not pan out and ultimately could not be confirmed. However, with their equipment converted to dimuon () mode with increased sensitivity upped 100 times, they began measurement in May 1977 and clearly confirmed resonance peaks at 9.4/9.5. 10. (cf. under S1, S2, S3) These peaks were verified by the German team using DESY's DORIS storage ring. The upsilon was the first particle containing a bottom quark to be discovered because it is the lightest that can be produced without additional massive particles. == Resonant states ==

(1S) Mass measured at (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Particle Data Group, 2008) Lifeime of about > 10−20 calculated from measured energy width to . The types of decay modes are diverse, with electron pair, muon pair, tauon pair decays (all three lepton decays) each occurring at 2.5% frequency. Here again, decay modes are diverse, decaying into (1S) and charged pion pair, approx. 20% of the time, into (1S) and neutral pair, approx. 10%, and into lepton (e, μ, τ) pairs, about 2% each. (3S) Mass measured at Again, diversely decaying into Υ(2S) + X (such as pion pairs), approx. 10% Υ(1S) + X (such as pion pairs), also lepton (μ, τ) pairs, about 2% apiece, but e+e^ decay is quite rare.。 Nearly completely decays (> 96%) into B meson pairs, almost fifty–fifty between charged pairs and uncharged pairs. Main decay mode into B meson pairs only or with 1 or 2 pions, about 60% of the time, and into charm B meson pairs, about 20% of the time. The decay modes are unclear except a small percentage of electron pair decays, as of 2008.。 == See also ==