Single eta production in heavy quarkonia: breakdown of multipole expansion

Abstract

The $\eta$ production in the $(n,n')$ bottomonium transitions $\Upsilon (n) \to \Upsilon (n') \eta, $ is studied in the method used before for dipion heavy quarkonia transitions. The widths $\Gamma_\eta(n,n')$ are calculated without fitting parameters for $n=2,3,4,5, n'=1$. Resulting $\Gamma_\eta(4,1)$ is found to be large in agreement with recent data. Multipole expansion method is shown to be inadequate for large size systems considered.