Further Search for the Two-Photon Production of the Glueball CandidatefJ(2220)

M S Alam,E Johnson,R Ehrlich,W T Ford,M Lohner,P M Patel,R J Morrison,E Dambasuren,A J Sadoff,N Menon,E Nordberg,H P Paar,R S Galik,G D Gollin,D Cinabro,A Anastassov,M Ogg,T Bergfeld,S J Richichi,E H Thorndike,M A Marsh,V Fadeyev,N B Mistry,R Ammar,M M Zoeller,J Staeck,S B Athar,B E Berger,G Eigen,H Marsiske,M Sivertz,C Bebek,R Janicek,J G Smith,D L Kreinick,E I Shibata,K Kinoshita,R Poling,B Gittelman,T K Nelson,D S Crowcroft,S Chan,N Kwak,K K Gan,D M Asner,D L Hartill,G Masek,J E Duboscq,A H Mahmood,T E Coan,J W Hinson,V Boisvert,M Chadhha,Y Li,D Coppage,T Hart,C R Ng,B Valant-Spaight,J P Alexander,M Bishai,I C Lai,K Lingel,V Savinov,J Urheim,G E Gladding,S Kotov,H N Nelson,K Honscheid,S Schuh,H Schwarthoff,P S Drell,J Roy,P I Hopman,I Karliner,T Riehle,A L Lyon,S Prell,M Athanas,Z Ling,B I Eisenstein,K W Edwards,S Von Dombrowski,T E Browder,S W Gray,P Gaidarev,T S Hill,R Mountain,G J Zhou,S E Csorna,J Gronberg,A Efimov,M Dickson,R A Briere,D J Lange,B K Heltsley,E M Potter,S Glenn,S Roberts,R M Hans,G Bonvicini,I Narsky,D Ugolini,R Godang,H Kagan,C Darling,J Kandaswamy,J Bartelt,P Pomianowski,D Peterson,D G Cassel,D Riley,S Schrenk,G C Moneti,J J Thaler,P Skubic,R Stroynowski,М Перл ,K W Mclean,J Lee,L Zhou,S Köpp ,J R Patterson,R C Baker ,C D Jones,R Kass,J E Fast ,Richard Wilson ,Xiang Zhou ,P Baringer,M Selen,F R Wappler ,D E Jaffe,A Ershov,T Skwarnicki,D Besson,R Greene,A Soffer,H Yamamoto,J J O’neill ,S Márka ,V Sharma,T Lee,A J Weinstein,D H Miller,D Y.-J Kim,H Severini,A Bellerive,V Shelkov,S Anderson,G H A Viehhauser ,M Śchmidtler ,Y Kubota,J C Wang,M Palmer,Y S Gao,A Titov,Y Maravin,Sarira Sahu ,A Bean,A Undrus,I P J Shipsey,J P Zheng ,Y Liu,P Avery,J Ernst,A Smith,G Brandenburg,A Foland ,C P Jessop,J S Miller,S Stone,I Kravchenko,K M Ecklund,S Timm,A Wolf,J L Rodriguez,R Davis,D A Roberts ,L P Perera,A V Gritsan ,J Ye,C Prescott,J Yelton,I Korolkov,M Artuso,B H Behrens,S J Lee,Y J Kwon ,K Berkelman,I Volobouev,Daniel W Bliss ,S Patton,C P Ward ,M B Spencer,L Gibbons,F Würthwein

doi:10.1103/physrevlett.81.3328

Abstract

The CLEOII detector at the Cornell e+ e- storage ring CESR has been used to search for the two-photon production of the $f_J(2220)$ decaying into pi+ pi-. No evidence for a signal is found in data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4.77/fb and a 95% CL upper limit on $\Gamma_{two-photon} * BR{pi+ pi-}$ of 2.5 eV is set. If this result is combined with the BES Collaboration's measurement of $f_J(2220) -> pi+ pi-$ in radiative $J/\psi$ decay, a 95% CL lower limit on the stickiness of the $f_J(2220)$ of 73 is obtained. If the recent CLEO result for $\Gamma_{two-photon} * BR{\K_S K_S}$ is combined with the present result, the stickiness of the $f_J(2220)$ is found to be larger than 102 at the 95% CL. These results for the stickiness (the ratio of the probabilities for two-gluon coupling and two-photon coupling) provide further support for a substantial neutral parton content in the $f_J(2220)$.

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