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

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Physical Review D, (Oct 3, 2006)
DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.75.017501

Abstract

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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