Pentaquark Θ+ search at HERMES

Akopov, N. et al. (2015) Pentaquark Θ+ search at HERMES. Physical Review D, 91(5), 057101. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.91.057101)

Abstract

The earlier search at HERMES for narrow baryon states excited in quasireal photoproduction, decaying through the channel pK0S→pπ+π−, has been extended with improved decay-particle reconstruction, more advanced particle identification, and increased event samples. The structure observed earlier at an invariant mass of 1528 MeV shifts to 1522 MeV and the statistical significance drops to about 2σ for data taken with a deuterium target. The number of events above background is 68+98−31(stat)±13(sys). No such structure is observed in the hydrogen data set.

• Item Type: Articles
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Mahon, Dr David and Murray, Dr Morgan and Burns, Mr Jonathan and Kaiser, Professor Ralf and Lehmann, Dr Inti and Seitz, Dr Bjoern and Rosner, Professor Guenther
• Authors: Akopov, N., Akopov, Z., Augustyniak, W., Avakian, R., Avetissian, A., Avetisyan, E., Belostotski, S., Blok, H. P., Borissov, A., Bowles, J., Bryzgalov, V., Burns, J., Capitani, G. P., Cisbani, E., Ciullo, G., Contalbrigo, M., Dalpiaz, P. F., Deconinck, W., De Leo, R., De Sanctis, E., Di Nezza, P., Elbakian, G., Etzelmüller, E., Fabbri, R., Fantoni, A., Felawka, L., Frullani, S., Gabbert, D., Garay García, J., Garibaldi, F., Gavrilov, G., Giordano, F., Gliske, S., Hartig, M., Hasch, D., Holler, Y., Hristova, I., Imazu, Y., Ivanilov, A., Jackson, H. E., Joosten, S., Kaiser, R., Karyan, G., Keri, T., Kinney, E., Kisselev, A., Kozlov, V., Kravchenko, P., Krivokhijine, V. G., Lagamba, L., Lapikás, L., Lehmann, I., López Ruiz, A., Lorenzon, W., Lu, X., Ma, B.-Q., Mahon, D., Manaenkov, S. I., Mao, Y., Marianski, B., Martinez de la Ossa, A., Marukyan, H., Miller, C. A., Miyachi, Y., Movsisyan, A., Murray, M., Nappi, E., Nass, A., Negodaev, M., Nowak, W.-D., Pappalardo, L. L., Perez-Benito, R., Petrosyan, A., Reimer, P. E., Reolon, A. R., Riedl, C., Rith, K., Rosner, G., Rostomyan, A., Rubin, J., Ryckbosch, D., Salomatin, Y., Schnell, G., Schüler, K. P., Seitz, B., Shibata, T.-A., Stancari, M., Steijger, J. J. M., Taroian, S., Terkulov, A., Truty, R., Trzcinski, A., Tytgat, M., Van Haarlem, Y., Van Hulse, C., Veretennikov, D., Vikhrov, V., Vilardi, I., Wang, S., Yaschenko, S., Ye, H., Ye, Z., Yen, S., Zihlmann, B., and Zupranski, P.
• College/School: College of Science and Engineering > School of Physics and Astronomy
• Journal Name: Physical Review D
• Publisher: American Physical Society
• ISSN: 1550-7998
• ISSN (Online): 1089-4918