%0 Journal Article %T Testing the nature of the $\Lambda$(1520) in the $J/\psi\to\bar{\Lambda}K^-p$ and $J/\psi\to\bar{\Lambda}\pi^+\pi^-\Lambda$ reactions %A Geng %A L. S. %A Oset %A E. %A Zou %A B. S. %J High Energy Physics - Phenomenology %D 2008 %I %R 10.1140/epja/i2008-10673-7 %X We study the reactions $J/\psi\to\bar{\Lambda}K^-p$ and $J/\psi\to\bar{\Lambda}\pi^+\pi^-\Lambda$ with a unitary chiral approach. We predict the ratio of the invariant mass distributions of these two reactions at the $\Lambda(1520)$ peak position, which is free of the unknown production mechanism and reflects only the properties of the $\Lambda(1520)$. An experimental measurement of this ratio will provide the couplings of the $\Lambda(1520)$ to its decay channels, allowing to test the predictions of the chiral unitary approach on this resonance, which appears as dynamically generated in that approach. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/0807.4798