Observation of structure in the J/ψ-pair mass spectrum

Abstract

Using proton-proton collision data at centre-of-mass energies of ffiffi s p 7; 8 and 13 TeV recorded by the LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 9 fb 1 , the invariant mass spectrum of J/w pairs is studied. A narrow structure around 6:9 GeV=c 2 matching the lineshape of a resonance and a broad structure just above twice the J/w mass are observed. The deviation of the data from nonresonant J/w-pair production is above five standard deviations in the mass region between 6:2 and 7:4 GeV=c 2 , covering predicted masses of states composed of four charm quarks. The mass and natural width of the narrow X 6900 structure are measured assuming a Breit-Wigner lineshape.

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