Charmonium Graph (IMAGE)

DOE/Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

Charmonium Graph

Caption

This illustration shows the contours of a complex energy plane. Each color corresponds to a different D-meson pair. Although the shapes are very different, they circle around a common peak. This signifies the presence of a single resonance coupled to all three channels.

Credit

Jefferson Lab illustration/David Wilson

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License

Public Domain

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