Evidence for a narrow |S|=1 baryon state at a mass of 1528 MeV in quasi-real photoproduction

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作者
Airapetian, A [1 ]
Akopov, N
Akopov, Z
Amarian, M
Ammosov, VV
Andrus, A
Aschenauer, EC
Augustyniak, W
Avakian, R
Avetissian, A
Avetissian, E
Bailey, P
Balin, D
Baturin, V
Beckmann, M
Belostotski, S
Bernreuther, S
Bianchi, N
Blok, HP
Böttcher, H
Borissov, A
Borysenko, A
Bouwhuis, M
Brack, J
Brüll, A
Bryzgalov, V
Capitani, GP
Chen, T
Chen, X
Chiang, HC
Ciullo, G
Contalbrigo, M
Dalpiaz, PF
Deconinck, W
De Leo, R
De Nardo, L
De Sanctis, E
Devitsin, E
Di Nezza, P
Düren, M
Ehrenfried, M
Elalaoui-Moulay, A
Elbakian, G
Ellinghaus, F
Elschenbroich, U
Ely, J
Fabbri, R
Fantoni, A
Fechtchenko, A
Felawka, L
机构
[1] Univ Alberta, Dept Phys, Edmonton, AB T6G 2J1, Canada
[2] Argonne Natl Lab, Div Phys, Argonne, IL 60439 USA
[3] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Bari, I-70124 Bari, Italy
[4] Peking Univ, Sch Phys, Beijing 100871, Peoples R China
[5] Univ Sci & Technol China, Dept Modern Phys, Hefei 230026, Anhui, Peoples R China
[6] Univ Colorado, Nucl Phys Lab, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
[7] DESY, D-22603 Hamburg, Germany
[8] DESY, D-15739 Zeuthen, Germany
[9] Joint Inst Nucl Res, Dubna 141980, Russia
[10] Univ Erlangen Nurnberg, Inst Phys, D-90158 Erlangen, Germany
[11] Univ Ferrara, Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Ferrara, I-44100 Ferrara, Italy
[12] Univ Ferrara, Dipartimento Fis, I-44100 Ferrara, Italy
[13] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Lab Nazl Frascati, I-00044 Frascati, Italy
[14] Univ Ghent, Dept Subatom & Radiat Phys, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium
[15] Univ Giessen, Inst Phys, D-35392 Giessen, Germany
[16] Univ Glasgow, Dept Phys & Astron, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Lanark, Scotland
[17] Univ Illinois, Dept Phys, Urbana, IL 61801 USA
[18] MIT, Nucl Sci Lab, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[19] Univ Michigan, Randall Lab Phys, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
[20] PN Lebedev Phys Inst, Moscow 117924, Russia
[21] Univ Munich, Sekt Phys, D-85748 Garching, Germany
[22] NIKHEF H, Natl Inst Kernfys & Hoge Energiefys, NL-1009 DB Amsterdam, Netherlands
[23] Petersburg Nucl Phys Inst, Gatchina 188350, Russia
[24] Inst High Energy Phys, Protvino 142281, Moscow Region, Russia
[25] Univ Regensburg, Inst Theoret Phys, D-93040 Regensburg, Germany
[26] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Roma 1, Grp Sanita, I-00161 Rome, Italy
[27] Ist Super Sanita, Phys Lab, I-00161 Rome, Italy
[28] Simon Fraser Univ, Dept Phys, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada
[29] TRIUMF, Vancouver, BC V6T 2A3, Canada
[30] Tokyo Inst Technol, Dept Phys, Tokyo 152, Japan
[31] Vrije Univ Amsterdam, Dept Phys & Astron, NL-1081 HV Amsterdam, Netherlands
[32] Andrzej Soltan Inst Nucl Studies, PL-00689 Warsaw, Poland
[33] Yerevan Phys Inst, Yerevan 375036, Armenia
基金
英国工程与自然科学研究理事会; 加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会; 日本学术振兴会; 中国国家自然科学基金; 美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
glueball and nonstandard multi-quark/gluon states; photon and charged-lepton interactions with hadrons; baryon production; baryons;
D O I
10.1016/j.physletb.2004.01.079
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
Evidence for a narrow baryon state is found in quasi-real photoproduction on a deuterium target through the decay channel pK(S)(0) --> ppi(+)pi(-). A peak is observed in the pK(S)(0) invariant mass spectrum at 1528 +/- 2.6(stat) +/- 2.1(syst) MeV. Depending on the background model, the naive statistical significance of the peak is 4-6 standard deviations and its width may be somewhat larger than the experimental resolution of sigma = 4.3-6.2 MeV. This state may be interpreted as the predicted S = +1 exotic Theta(+)(uudd (s) over bar) pentaquark baryon. No signal for an hypothetical Theta(++) baryon was observed in the pK(+) invariant mass distribution. The absence of such a signal indicates that an isotensor Theta is excluded and an isovector Theta is unlikely. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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