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CUSB (Columbia University-Stony Brook) was a particle detector at the Cornell Electron Storage Ring. CUSB, along with CLEO, discovered both the Υ(3S)[1] and Υ(4S) meson resonances.[2] They also produced studies of the photon transitions between the Upsilon states and B meson decays.

References

  1. ^ T. Bohringer et al. (CUSB Collaboration) (1980). "Observation of ϒ, ϒ′, and ϒ′′ at the Cornell Electron Storage Ring". Physical Review Letters. 44 (17): 1111. Bibcode:1980PhRvL..44.1111B. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.44.1111.
  2. ^ G. Finocchiaro et al. (CUSB Collaboration) (1980). "Observation of the ϒ′′′ at the Cornell Electron Storage Ring". Physical Review Letters. 45 (4): 222. Bibcode:1980PhRvL..45..222F. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.45.222.