Observation of two excited charmed baryons decaying into Lambda(c)+ pi+-

Collaboration
Sep, 1996
10 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.Lett. 78 (1997) 2304-2308
Report number:
  • CLNS-96-1427,
  • CLEO-96-13,
  • SLAC-PUB-9851
Experiments:
  • CESR-CLEO-II

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Abstract: (APS)
Using data recorded by the CLEO-II detector at CESR, we report evidence of a pair of excited charmed baryons, one decaying into Λc+π+ and the other into Λc+π−. The doubly charged state has a measured mass difference M(Λc+π+)−M(Λc+) of 234.5±1.1±0.8 MeV/c2 and a width of 17.9−3.2+3.8±4.0MeV/c2, and the neutral state has a measured mass difference M(Λc+π−)−M(Λc+) of 232.6±1.0±0.8 MeV/c2 and a width of 13.0−3.0+3.7±4.0MeV/c2. We interpret these data as evidence of the Σc*++ and Σc*0, the spin 32+ excitations of the Σc baryons.
  • electron positron: colliding beams
  • electron positron: annihilation
  • charmed baryon: electroproduction
  • Sigma/c: excited state
  • new particle: Sigma/c*
  • charmed baryon: width
  • mass difference: (charmed baryon Lambda/c+)
  • multiplet: mass difference
  • charmed baryon: hadronic decay
  • angular distribution