Evidence for a narrow baryonic state decaying to KS0p and KS0(p)over-bar in deep inelastic scattering at HERA

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Chekanov, S
Derrick, M
Loizides, JH
Magill, S
Miglioranzi, S
Musgrave, B
Repond, J
Yoshida, R
Mattingly, MCK
Pavel, N
Antonioli, P
Bari, G
Basile, M
Bellagamba, L
Boscherini, D
Bruni, A
Bruni, G
Romeo, GC
Cifarelli, L
Cindolo, F
Contin, A
Corradi, M
De Pasquale, S
Giusti, P
Iacobucci, G
Margotti, A
Montanari, A
Nania, R
Palmonari, F
Pesci, A
Rinaldi, L
Sartorelli, G
Zichichi, A
Aghuzumtsyan, G
Bartsch, D
Brock, I
Goers, S
Hartmann, H
Hilger, E
Irrgang, P
Jakob, HP
Kind, O
Meyer, U
Paul, E
Rautenberg, J
Renner, R
Stifutkin, A
Tandler, J
Voss, KC
Wang, M
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[1] Argonne Natl Lab, Argonne, IL 60439 USA
[2] Andrews Univ, Berrien Springs, MI 49104 USA
[3] Humboldt Univ, Inst Phys, Berlin, Germany
[4] Univ Bologna, Bologna, Italy
[5] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-40126 Bologna, Italy
[6] Univ Bonn, Inst Phys, D-5300 Bonn, Germany
[7] Univ Bristol, HH Wills Phys Lab, Bristol BS8 1TL, Avon, England
[8] Univ Calabria, Dept Phys, I-87030 Commenda Di Rende, Italy
[9] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Cosenza, Italy
[10] Chonnam Natl Univ, Kwangju, South Korea
[11] Columbia Univ, Nevis Labs, New York, NY 10027 USA
[12] Inst Nucl Phys, Krakow, Poland
[13] Univ Sci & Technol, AGH, Fac Phys & Nucl Techniques, Krakow, Poland
[14] Jagiellonian Univ, Dept Phys, Krakow, Poland
[15] DESY, D-2000 Hamburg, Germany
[16] DESY, Zeuthen, Germany
[17] Univ Florence, Florence, Italy
[18] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-50125 Florence, Italy
[19] Univ Freiburg, Fak Phys, D-7800 Freiburg, Germany
[20] Univ Glasgow, Dept Phys & Astron, Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland
[21] Univ Aegean, Dept Engn Management & Finance, Mitilini, Greece
[22] Univ Hamburg, Inst Expt Phys, Hamburg, Germany
[23] Univ London Imperial Coll Sci Technol & Med, High Energy Nucl Phys Grp, London, England
[24] Forschungszentrum Julich, Inst Kernphys, D-5170 Julich, Germany
[25] Kek Nat Lab High Energy Phys, Inst Particle & Nucl Studies, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, Japan
[26] Minist Educ & Sci Kazakhstan, Inst Phys & Technol, Alma Ata, Kazakhstan
[27] Kyungpook Natl Univ, Ctr High Energy Phys, Taegu, South Korea
[28] Catholic Univ Louvain, Inst Phys Nucl, B-1348 Louvain, Belgium
[29] Univ Autonoma Madrid, Dept Fis Teor, Madrid, Spain
[30] McGill Univ, Dept Phys, Montreal, PQ H3A 2T8, Canada
[31] Meiji Gakuin Univ, Fac Gen Educ, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
[32] Moscow Engn Phys Inst, Moscow 115409, Russia
[33] Moscow MV Lomonosov State Univ, Inst Nucl Phys, Moscow, Russia
[34] Max Planck Inst Phys & Astrophys, D-80805 Munich, Germany
[35] Univ Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
[36] NIKHEF H, NL-1009 DB Amsterdam, Netherlands
[37] Ohio State Univ, Dept Phys, Columbus, OH 43210 USA
[38] Univ Oxford, Dept Phys, Oxford, England
[39] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Padua, Italy
[40] Univ Padua, Dipartimento Fis, Padua, Italy
[41] Penn State Univ, Dept Phys, University Pk, PA 16802 USA
[42] Polytech Univ, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan
[43] Univ Roma La Sapienza, Dipartimento Fis, I-00185 Rome, Italy
[44] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Rome, Italy
[45] Rutherford Appleton Lab, Didcot OX11 0QX, Oxon, England
[46] Univ Calif Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 USA
[47] Ewha Womans Univ, Dept Phys, Seoul, South Korea
[48] Tel Aviv Univ, Sch Phys, Raymond & Beverly Sackler Fac Exact Sci, IL-69978 Tel Aviv, Israel
[49] Tokyo Inst Technol, Dept Phys, Tokyo 152, Japan
[50] Univ Tokyo, Dept Phys, Tokyo 113, Japan
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10.1016/j.physletb.2004.04.024
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
摘要
A resonance search has been made in the K(S)(0)p and K-S(0)(p) over bar invariant-mass spectrum measured with the ZEUS detector at HERA using an integrated luminosity of 121 pb(-1). The search was performed in the central rapidity region of inclusive deep inelastic scattering at an ep centre-of-mass energy of 300-318 GeV for exchanged photon virtuality, Q(2), above 1 GeV2. Recent results from fixed-target experiments give evidence for a narrow baryon resonance decaying to K(+)n and K(S)(0)p, interpreted as a pentaquark. The results presented here support the existence of such state, with a mass of 1521.5 +/- 1.5(stat.)(-1.7)(+2.8)(syst.) MeV and a Gaussian width consistent with the experimental resolution of 2 MeV The signal is visible at high Q(2) and, for Q(2) > 20 GeV2, contains 221 +/- 48 events. The probability of a similar signal anywhere in the range 1500-1560 MeV arising from fluctuations of the background is below 6 x 10(-5). (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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