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arxiv: 1007.4682 · v2 · pith:MJAH733Wnew · submitted 2010-07-27 · ✦ hep-ph · hep-ex

Extracting the light quark mass ratio m_u/m_d from bottomonia transitions

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keywords lightmassquarkbottomoniadecayratiotransitionsupsilon
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We propose a new method to extract the light quark mass ratio $m_u/m_d$ using the $\Upsilon(4S)\to h_b\pi^0(\eta)$ bottomonia transitions. The decay amplitudes are dominated by the light quark mass differences, and the corrections from other effects are rather small, allowing for a precise extraction. We also discuss how to reduce the theoretical uncertainty with the help of future experiments. As a by-product, we show that the decay $\Upsilon(4S)\to h_b\eta$ is expected to be a nice channel for searching for the $h_b$ state.

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