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A search for the process $e^+e^- to eta^prime$ has been performed with the SND detector at the VEPP-2000 $e^+e^-$ collider. The data were accumulated at the center-of-mass energy of $957.78pm 0.06$ MeV with an integrated luminosity of about 2.9 pb$^{-1}$. For reconstruction of the $eta^prime$ meson five decay chains have been used: $eta^{prime}toetapi^+pi^-$ followed by the $eta$ decays to $gammagamma$ and $3pi^0 $, and $eta^{prime} to etapi^0pi^0$ followed by the $eta$ decays to $pi^+pi^-pi^0$, $gammagamma$, and $3pi^0$. As a result, the upper limit has been set on the $eta^prime$ electronic width: $Gamma_{eta^{prime}to e^+e^-} < 0.0020$ eV at the 90% confidence level.
A search for the process $epemto eta^prime(958)$ in the $pipietatopipigammagamma$ final state has been performed with the CMD-3 detector at the VEPP-2000 $e^+e^-$ collider. Using an integrated luminosity of 2.69 pb$^{-1}$ collected at the center-of-mass energy Ecm = 957.68 MeV we set an upper limit for the product of electronic width and branching fractions $Gamma_{eta^prime(958)toepem}cdotBR_{eta^prime(958)topipieta}cdotBR_{etatogammagamma}<0.00041$ eV at 90% C.L.
A search for the rare decay $eta^{prime} to e^+e^-$ has been performed with the SND detector at the VEPP-2000 $e^+e^-$ collider. The inverse reaction $e^+e^- to eta^{prime}$ and $eta^{prime}$ five decay chains have been used for this search. The upper limit $Gamma_{eta^{prime} to e^+e^-}<0.002$ eV at the 90% confidence level has been set. A sensitivity of SND in a search for $eta to e^+e^-$ decay has been studied. For this perpose we have analyzed a data sample with an integrated luminosity of 108 nb$^{-1}$ collected in the center-of-mass energy range 520-580 MeV. There are no background events for the reaction $e^+e^- to eta$ with decay $eta to pi^0pi^0pi^0$ have been found. In the absence of background, a sensitivity to $B(eta to e^+e^-)$ of 10$^{-6}$ can be reached during two weeks of VEPP-2000 operation.
We present the result of a direct search for the decay K_S -> e+e-, obtained with a sample of e+e- -> phi -> K_S K_L events produced at DAFNE, the Frascati phi-factory, for an integrated luminosity of 1.9 fb^-1. The search has been performed using a pure K_S beam tagged by the simultaneous detection of a K_L interaction in the calorimeter. Background rejection has been optimized by using both kinematic and particle identification cuts. We find BR(K_S -> e+e-) < 9x10^-9 at 90% CL, which improves by an order of magnitude on the previous best limit.
We report the first observation of the processes $e^+e^-toUpsilon(rm 1S,2S)eta$ at $sqrt{s}=10.866$~GeV with a $10.2sigma$ and $16.5sigma$ significance respectively. The measured Born cross sections are $sigma(e^+e^- to Upsilon(2S)eta)=2.07 pm 0.21 pm 0.19$~pb, and $sigma(e^+e^- to Upsilon(rm 1S)eta)=0.42 pm 0.08 pm 0.04$~pb. We also set the upper limit on the cross section of the process $e^+e^- to Upsilon(rm 1S)eta^{prime}$ to be $sigma(e^+e^- to Upsilon(rm 1S)eta^{prime})<0.035$~pb at $90%$ CL. The results are obtained with the data sample collected with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy $e^+e^-$ collider in the energy range from $10.63$~GeV to $11.02$~GeV.
We have studied the vector to pseudoscalar conversion decay phi -> eta e+e-, with eta -> pi0pi0pi0, with the KLOE detector at DAPHNE. The data set of 1.7 fb-1 of e+e- collisions at sqrt(s)~Mphi contains a clear conversion decay signal of ~31,000 events from which we measured a value of BR(phi -> eta e+e-)=(1.075+-0.007+-0.038)x10-4. The same sample is used to determine the transition form factor by a fit to the e+e- invariant mass spectrum, obtaining b(phi eta) =(1.17 +- 0.10 + 0.07) GeV-2, that improves by a factor of five the precision of the previous measurement and is in good agreement with VMD expectations.