Bottomonium Spectroscopy and the Discovery of the Bottomonium Ground State at BaBar

Silke Nelson (SLAC)
DESY auditorium, 17:00h

Thirty years after the discovery of the Upsilon resonances and the bottom quark, BaBar has made the first observation of the bottomonium ground state, the eta_b. I will present details of the observation. In addition I will discuss other recent BaBar bottomonium analyses.

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