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arxiv: hep-ph/0609268 · v2 · submitted 2006-09-26 · ✦ hep-ph · hep-ex

Two-photon width of eta_b, eta'_b and eta''_b from Heavy-Quark Spin Symmetry

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keywords gammaheavy-quarkratiotwo-photonwidthalphabinding-energybottomonia
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We predict the two-photon width of the pseudoscalar bottomonia, Gamma(eta_b -> gamma gamma), Gamma(eta'_b -> gamma gamma) and Gamma(eta''_b -> gamma gamma) within a Heavy-Quark Spin-Symmetry setting following the same line as our recent work for the corresponding decays for charmonia. Binding-energy effects are included for excited states and are shown to shift up the eta'_b and eta''_b widths by 10 %. We point out that the essentially model independent ratio Gamma(eta_b -> gamma gamma)/Gamma(Upsilon -> ll) and the branching ratio BR(eta_b -> gamma gamma) obtained could be used to extract the coupling constant alpha_s.

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