Observation of two narrow states decaying into xi+(c) gamma and xi0(c) gamma

Collaboration
Oct, 1998
11 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.Lett. 82 (1999) 492-496
e-Print:
Report number:
  • SLAC-REPRINT-1998-100,
  • CLNS-98-1581,
  • CLEO-98-13
Experiments:
  • CESR-CLEO-II

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Abstract:
We report the first observation of two narrow charmed strange baryons decaying to Ξc+γ\Xi_c^+\gamma and Ξc0γ\Xi_c^0\gamma, respectively, using data from the CLEO II detector at CESR. We interpret the observed signals as the Ξc+(csu)\Xi_c^{+\prime}(c{su}) and Ξc0(csd)\Xi_c^{0\prime}(c{sd}), the symmetric partners of the well-established antisymmetric Ξc+(c[su])\Xi_c^+(c[su]) and Ξc0(c[sd])\Xi_c^0(c[sd]). The mass differences M(Ξc+)M(Ξc+)M(\Xi_c^{+\prime})-M(\Xi_c^+) and M(Ξc0)M(Ξc0)M(\Xi_c^{0\prime})-M(\Xi_c^0) are measured to be 107.8±1.7±2.5107.8\pm 1.7\pm 2.5 and 107.0±1.4±2.5MeV/c2107.0\pm 1.4\pm 2.5 MeV/c^2, respectively.
  • electron positron: colliding beams
  • electron positron: annihilation
  • charmed baryon: electroproduction
  • charmed baryon: radiative decay
  • Xi/c+: excited state
  • Xi/c0: excited state
  • Xi/c+: hadronic decay
  • Xi/c0: hadronic decay
  • charmed baryon: mass difference
  • fragmentation function