Abstract
We present a study of the , , and systems in inclusive interactions in a search for new excited meson states. We use a data set, consisting of , collected at center-of-mass energies near 10.58 GeV by the BABAR detector at the SLAC PEP-II asymmetric-energy collider. We observe, for the first time, candidates for the radial excitations of the , , and , as well as the excited states of the and , where is the orbital angular momentum of the quarks.
- Received 12 September 2010
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.82.111101
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