Search for Θ++ Pentaquarks in the Exclusive Reaction γp→K+K-p

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Kubarovsky, V. [1 ]
Battaglieri, M.
De Vita, R.
Goett, J.
Guo, L.
Mutchler, G. S.
Stoler, P.
Weygand, D. P.
Ambrozewicz, P.
Anghinolfi, M.
Asryan, G.
Avakian, H.
Bagdasaryan, H.
Baillie, N.
Ball, J. P.
Baltzell, N. A.
Batourine, V.
Bedlinskiy, I.
Bellis, M.
Benmouna, N.
Berman, B. L.
Biselli, A. S.
Bouchigny, S.
Boiarinov, S.
Bradford, R.
Branford, D.
Briscoe, W. J.
Brooks, W. K.
Bueltmann, S.
Burkert, V. D.
Butuceanu, C.
Calarco, J. R.
Careccia, S. L.
Carman, D. S.
Chen, S.
Clinton, E.
Cole, P. L.
Collins, P.
Coltharp, P.
Crabb, D.
Crannell, H.
Crede, V.
Cummings, J. P.
De Masi, R.
Dale, D.
De Sanctis, E.
Degtyarenko, P. V.
Deur, A.
Dharmawardane, K. V.
Djalali, C.
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[1] Rensselaer Polytech Inst, Troy, NY 12180 USA
[2] Thomas Jefferson Natl Accelerator Facil, Newport News, VA 23606 USA
[3] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Genova, I-16146 Genoa, Italy
[4] Univ Genoa, Dipartimento Fis, I-16146 Genoa, Italy
[5] Univ S Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208 USA
[6] Carnegie Mellon Univ, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA
[7] Rice Univ, Houston, TX 77005 USA
[8] Univ Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269 USA
[9] Argonne Natl Lab, Div Phys, Argonne, IL 60439 USA
[10] Arizona State Univ, Tempe, AZ 85287 USA
[11] Univ Calif Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA
[12] Calif State Univ Dominguez Hills, Carson, CA 90747 USA
[13] Catholic Univ Amer, Washington, DC 20064 USA
[14] CEA Saclay, Serv Phys Nucl, F-91191 Gif Sur Yvette, France
[15] Christopher Newport Univ, Newport News, VA 23606 USA
[16] Univ Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ, Midlothian, Scotland
[17] Florida Int Univ, Miami, FL 33199 USA
[18] Florida State Univ, Tallahassee, FL 32306 USA
[19] George Washington Univ, Washington, DC 20052 USA
[20] Univ Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Lanark, Scotland
[21] Idaho State Univ, Pocatello, ID 83209 USA
[22] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Lab Nazl Frascati, I-00044 Frascati, Italy
[23] Inst Phys Nucl, F-91406 Orsay, France
[24] Inst High Energy Phys, Protvino 142281, Russia
[25] Inst Theoret & Expt Phys, Moscow 117259, Russia
[26] James Madison Univ, Harrisonburg, VA 22807 USA
[27] Kharkov Phys & Technol Inst, UA-61108 Kharkov, Ukraine
[28] Kyungpook Natl Univ, Taegu 702701, South Korea
[29] Univ Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003 USA
[30] Moscow MV Lomonosov State Univ, Gen Nucl Phys Inst, Moscow 119899, Russia
[31] Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824 USA
[32] Norfolk State Univ, Norfolk, VA 23504 USA
[33] Ohio Univ, Athens, OH 45701 USA
[34] Old Dominion Univ, Norfolk, VA 23529 USA
[35] Univ Richmond, Richmond, VA 23173 USA
[36] Union Coll, Schenectady, NY 12308 USA
[37] Virginia Polytech Inst & State Univ, Blacksburg, VA 24061 USA
[38] Univ Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22901 USA
[39] Coll William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA 23187 USA
[40] Yerevan Phys Inst, Yerevan 375036, Armenia
[41] Univ Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 USA
[42] Univ N Carolina, Wilmington, NC 28403 USA
[43] N Carolina Agr & Tech State Univ, Greensboro, NC 27455 USA
[44] RIKEN, Inst Phys & Chem Res, Wako, Saitama 3510198, Japan
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.102001
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
The reaction gamma p -> pK(+)K(-) was studied at Jefferson Lab with photon energies from 1.8 to 3.8 GeV using a tagged photon beam. The goal was to search for a Theta(++) pentaquark, a narrow, doubly charged baryon state having strangeness S=+1 and isospin I=1, in the pK(+) invariant mass spectrum. No statistically significant evidence of a Theta(++) was found. Upper limits on the total and differential cross section for the reaction gamma p -> K-Theta(++) were obtained in the mass range from 1.5 to 2.0 GeV/c(2), with an upper limit for a narrow resonance with a mass M-Theta(++)=1.54 GeV/c(2) of about 0.15 nb, 95% C.L.. This result places a stringent upper limit on the Theta(++) width Gamma(++)(Theta)< 0.1 MeV/c(2).
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