Search for baryon-number and lepton-number violating decays of Λ hyperons using the CLAS detector at Jefferson Laboratory

McCracken, M. E. et al. (2015) Search for baryon-number and lepton-number violating decays of Λ hyperons using the CLAS detector at Jefferson Laboratory. Physical Review D, 92, 072002. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.92.072002)

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Abstract

We present a search for ten baryon number violating decay modes of Λ hyperons using the CLAS detector at Jefferson Laboratory. Nine of these decay modes result in a single meson and single lepton in the final state (Λ→ml) and conserve either the sum or the difference of baryon and lepton number (B+-L). The tenth decay mode (Λ→pπ+) represents a difference in baryon number of two units and no difference in lepton number. We observe no significant signal and set upper limits on the branching fractions of these reactions in the range (4–200)×10-7 at the 90% confidence level.

Item Type:Articles
Status:Published
Refereed:Yes
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID:Sokhan, Dr Daria and McKinnon, Dr Bryan and Ireland, Professor David and Livingston, Dr Kenneth and MacGregor, Professor Douglas and Rosner, Professor Guenther
Authors: McCracken, M. E., Bellis, M., Adhikari, K. P., Adikaram, D., Akbar, Z., Pereira, S. A., Badui, R. A., Ball, J., Baltzell, N. A., Battaglieri, M., Batourine, V., Bedlinskiy, I., Biselli, A. S., Boiarinov, S., Briscoe, W. J., Brooks, W. K., Burkert, V. D., Cao, T., Carman, D. S., Celentano, A., Chandavar, S., Charles, G., Colaneri, L., Cole, P. L., Contalbrigo, M., Cortes, O., Crede, V., D’Angelo, A., Dashyan, N., De Vita, R., De Sanctis, E., Deur, A., Djalali, C., Dodge, G. E., Dupre, R., Alaoui, A. E., Fassi, L. E., Elouadrhiri, E., Eugenio, P., Fedotov, G., Fegan, S., Fersch, R., Filippi, A., Fleming, J. A., Garillon, B., Gevorgyan, N., Gilfoyle, G. P., Giovanetti, K. L., Girod, F. X., Golovatch, E., Gothe, R. W., Griffioen, K. A., Guidal, M., Guo, L., Hafidi, K., Hakobyan, H., Hanretty, C., Hattawy, M., Hicks, K., Holtrop, M., Hughes, S. M., Ilieva, Y., Ireland, D. G., Ishkhanov, B. S., Isupov, E. L., Jenkins, D., Jiang, H., Jo, H. S., Keller, D., Khachatryan, G., Khandaker, M., Kim, A., Kim, W., Klein, A., Klein, F. J., Kubarovsky, V., Lenisa, P., Livingston, K., Lu, H. Y., MacGregor, I. J. D., Mayer, M., McKinnon, B., Mestayer, M. D., Meyer, C. A., Mirazita, M., Mokeev, V., Moody, C. I., Moriya, K., Munoz Camacho, C., Nadel-Turonski, P., Net, L. A., Niccolai, S., Osipenko, M., Ostrovidov, A. I., Park, K., Pasyuk, E., Pisano, S., Pogorelko, O., Price, J. W., Procureur, S., Prok, Y., Raue, B. A., Ripani, M., Rizzo, A., Rosner, G., Roy, P., Sabatié, F., Salgado, C., Schumacher, R. A., Seder, E., Sharabian, Y. G., Skorodumina, I., Sokhan, D., Sparveris, N., Stoler, P., Strakovsky, I. I., Strauch, S., Sytnik, V., Tian, Y., Ungaro, M., Voskanyan, H., Voutier, E., Walford, N. K., Watts, D. P., Wei, X., Wood, M. H., Zachariou, N., Zana, L., Zhang, J., Zhao, Z. W., and Zonta, I.
Subjects:Q Science > QC Physics
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):1550-2368

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