Search for the pentaquark via the P0(c)over-bars→K*0K-p decay

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作者
Aitala, EM [1 ]
Amato, S
Anjos, JC
Appel, JA
Ashery, D
Banerjee, S
Bediaga, I
Blaylock, G
Bracker, SB
Burchat, PR
Burnstein, RA
Carter, T
Carvalho, HS
Copty, NK
Cremaldi, LM
Darling, C
Denisenko, K
Fernandez, A
Fox, GF
Gagnon, P
Gerzon, S
Gobel, C
Gounder, K
Halling, AM
Herrera, G
Hurvits, G
James, C
Kasper, PA
Kwan, S
Langs, DC
Leslie, J
Lichtenstadt, J
Lundberg, B
MayTal-Beck, S
Meadows, BT
Neto, JRTD
Mihalcea, D
Milburn, RH
de Miranda, JM
Napier, A
Nguyen, A
d'Oliveira, AB
O'Shaughnessy, K
Peng, KC
Perera, LP
Purohit, MV
Quinn, B
Radeztsky, S
Rafatian, A
Reay, NW
机构
[1] Univ Mississippi, University, MS 38677 USA
[2] Ctr Brasileiro Pesquisas Fis, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
[3] Univ Calif Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 USA
[4] Univ Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221 USA
[5] CINVESTAV, Mexico City 07000, DF, Mexico
[6] Fermi Natl Accelerator Lab, Batavia, IL 60510 USA
[7] IIT, Chicago, IL 60616 USA
[8] Kansas State Univ, Manhattan, KS 66506 USA
[9] Univ Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003 USA
[10] Princeton Univ, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA
[11] Univ Autonoma Puebla, Puebla 72570, Mexico
[12] Univ S Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208 USA
[13] Stanford Univ, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
[14] Tel Aviv Univ, IL-69978 Tel Aviv, Israel
[15] Tufts Univ, Medford, MA 02155 USA
[16] Univ Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706 USA
[17] Yale Univ, New Haven, CT 06511 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
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10.1016/S0370-2693(99)00058-1
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
We have searched for evidence of the production and decay of a neutral bound-state pentaquark, one of a predicted doublet of states: P-(c over bar s)(0) = \(c) over bar suud] and P-(c over bar s)(-) = \(c) over bar sddu]. Specifically, we have searched for the decay P-(c over bar s)(0) --> K *K-0(-) p in data from Fermilab experiment E791, in which a 500 GeV/c pi(-) beam interacted with nuclear targets. We find mass-dependent upper limits at the 90% confidence level for the ratio of cross section times branching fraction of this decay relative to that for the decay D-s(-) --> K *K-0(-). The upper limits vary between 0.016 and 0.036 for M(P-(c over bar s)(0)) between 2.75 and 2.91 GeV/c(2), assuming a pentaquark lifetime of 0.4 ps. (C) 1999 Published by Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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