First observation of the doubly charmed baryon Ξcc+ -: art. no. 112001

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作者
Mattson, M [1 ]
Alkhazov, G
Atamantchouk, AG
Balatz, MY
Bondar, NF
Cooper, PS
Dauwe, LJ
Davidenko, GV
Dersch, U
Dolgolenko, AG
Dzyubenko, GB
Edelstein, R
Emediato, L
Endler, AMF
Engelfried, J
Eschrich, I
Escobar, CO
Evdokimov, AV
Filimonov, IS
Garcia, FG
Gaspero, M
Giller, I
Golovtsov, VL
Gouffon, P
Gülmez, E
He, KL
Iori, M
Jun, SY
Kaya, M
Kilmer, J
Kim, VT
Kochenda, LM
Konorov, I
Kozhevnikov, AP
Krivshich, AG
Krüger, H
Kubantsev, MA
Kubarovsky, VP
Kulyavtsev, AI
Kuropatkin, NP
Kurshetsov, VF
Kushnirenko, A
Kwan, S
Lach, J
Lamberto, A
Landsberg, LG
Larin, I
Leikin, EM
Yunshan, L
Luksys, M
机构
[1] Carnegie Mellon Univ, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA
[2] Ball State Univ, Muncie, IN 47306 USA
[3] Bogazici Univ, TR-80815 Bebek, Istanbul, Turkey
[4] Ctr Brasileiro Pesquisas Fis, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
[5] Fermilab Natl Accelerator Lab, Batavia, IL 60510 USA
[6] Inst High Energy Phys, Protvino, Russia
[7] Inst High Energy Phys, Beijing 100039, Peoples R China
[8] Inst Theoret & Expt Phys, Moscow 117259, Russia
[9] Max Planck Inst Kernphys, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany
[10] Moscow MV Lomonosov State Univ, Moscow, Russia
[11] Petersburg Nucl Phys Inst, St Petersburg, Russia
[12] Tel Aviv Univ, IL-69978 Ramat Aviv, Israel
[13] Univ Autonoma San Luis Potosi, San Luis Potosi, Mexico
[14] Univ Fed Paraiba, BR-58059900 Joao Pessoa, Paraiba, Brazil
[15] Univ Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TL, Avon, England
[16] Univ Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242 USA
[17] Univ Michigan, Flint, MI 48502 USA
[18] Univ Roma La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
[19] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Rome, Italy
[20] Univ Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
[21] Univ Trieste, Trieste, Italy
[22] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Trieste, Italy
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.112001
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
We observe a signal for the doubly charmed baryon Xi(cc)(+) in the charged decay mode Xi(cc)(+)-->Lambda(c)(+)K(-)pi(+) in data from SELEX, the charm hadroproduction experiment at Fermilab. We observe an excess of 15.9 events over an expected background of 6.1+/-0.5 events, a statistical significance of 6.3sigma. The observed mass of this state is 3519+/-1 MeV/c(2). The Gaussian mass width of this state is 3 MeV/c(2), consistent with resolution; its lifetime is less than 33 fs at 90% confidence.
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