Search for pentaquarks decaying to Xi-pi in deep inelastic scattering at HERA
Jan, 200512 pages
Published in:
- Phys.Lett.B 610 (2005) 212-224
e-Print:
- hep-ex/0501069 [hep-ex]
Report number:
- DESY-05-018
Experiments:
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Abstract: (Elsevier)
A search for pentaquarks decaying to Ξ−π− ( Ξ−π+ ) and corresponding antiparticles has been performed with the ZEUS detector at HERA. The data sample consists of deep inelastic ep scattering events at centre-of-mass energies of 300 and 318 GeV, and corresponds to 121 pb −1 of integrated luminosity. A clear signal for Ξ0(1530)→Ξ−π+ was observed. However, no signal for any new baryonic state was observed at higher masses in either the Ξ−π− or Ξ−π+ channels. The searches in the antiparticle channels were also negative. Upper limits on the ratio of a possible Ξ3/2−− ( Ξ3/20 ) signal to the Ξ0(1530) signal were set in the mass range 1650–2350 MeV.Note:
- 12 pages, 4 figures, submitted to Phys. Lett. B
- electron p: colliding beams
- pentaquark: search for
- pentaquark: hadronic decay
- mass spectrum: (Xi- pi-)
- mass spectrum: (Xi- pi+)
- Xi(1530): electroproduction
- channel cross section: ratio
- upper limit
- ZEUS
- experimental results
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