Bottomomium Mesons and Strategies for Their Observation

by Stephen Godfrey (Carleton)

Friday Feb 27, 2015, 3:00 PM → 4:00 PM Pacific/Honolulu

WAT 417A

The B-factories and Large Hadron Collider experiments have demonstrated the ability to observe and measure the properties of bottomomium mesons. In order to discover missing states it is useful to know their properties to develop a search strategy.  To this end we calculate the masses and decay properties of excited bottomonium states.  We find that the $b\bar{b}$ system has a rich spectroscopy that we expect to be substantially extended by the LHC and $e^+e^-$ experiments in the near future.  These results can also be used to test our understanding of bottomonium states in the context of the quark model.