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Phys Rev Lett. 2003 Dec 19;91(25):252001. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.252001. Epub 2003 Dec 19.

Observation of an exotic S = +1 baryon in exclusive photoproduction from the deuteron.

Physical review letters

S Stepanyan, K Hicks, D S Carman, E Pasyuk, R A Schumacher, E S Smith, D J Tedeschi, L Todor, G Adams, P Ambrozewicz, E Anciant, M Anghinolfi, B Asavapibhop, G Audit, H Avakian, H Bagdasaryan, J P Ball, S P Barrow, M Battaglieri, K Beard, M Bektasoglu, M Bellis, B L Berman, N Bianchi, A S Biselli, S Boiarinov, S Bouchigny, R Bradford, D Branford, W J Briscoe, W K Brooks, V D Burkert, C Butuceanu, J R Calarco, B Carnahan, S Chen, L Ciciani, P L Cole, A Coleman, D Cords, P Corvisiero, D Crabb, H Crannell, J P Cummings, E De Sanctis, P V Degtyarenko, H Denizli, L Dennis, R De Vita, K V Dharmawardane, K S Dhuga, C Djalali, G E Dodge, D Doughty, P Dragovitsch, M Dugger, S Dytman, O P Dzyubak, H Egiyan, K S Egiyan, L Elouadrhiri, A Empl, P Eugenio, R Fatemi, R J Feuerbach, J Ficenec, T A Forest, H Funsten, M Garçon, G Gavalian, G P Gilfoyle, K L Giovanetti, C I O Gordon, R Gothe, K Griffioen, M Guidal, M Guillo, L Guo, V Gyurjyan, C Hadjidakis, R S Hakobyan, J Hardie, D Heddle, P Heimberg, F W Hersman, R S Hicks, M Holtrop, J Hu, C E Hyde-Wright, M M Ito, D Jenkins, K Joo, H G Juengst, J D Kellie, M Khandaker, K Y Kim, K Kim, W Kim, A Klein, F J Klein, A V Klimenko, M Klusman, M Kossov, L H Kramer, Y Kuang, V Kubarovsky, S E Kuhn, J Kuhn, J Lachniet, D Lawrence, J Li, A Lima, K Livingston, K Lukashin, J J Manak, S McAleer, J W C McNabb, B A Mecking, S Mehrabyan, J J Melone, M D Mestayer, C A Meyer, K Mikhailov, R Minehart, M Mirazita, R Miskimen, V Mokeev, L Morand, S Morrow, V Muccifora, J Mueller, L Y Murphy, G S Mutchler, J Napolitano, R Nasseripour, S Niccolai, G Niculescu, I Niculescu, B B Niczyporuk, R A Niyazov, M Nozar, J O'Brien, G V O'Rielly, A K Opper, M Osipenko, K Park, G Peterson, S A Philips, N Pivnyuk, D Pocanic, O Pogorelko, E Polli, S Pozdniakov, B M Preedom, J W Price, Y Prok, D Protopopescu, L M Qin, B A Raue, G Riccardi, G Ricco, M Ripani, B G Ritchie, F Ronchetti, P Rossi, D Rowntree, P Rubin, F Sabatié, C Salgado, J Santoro, V Sapunenko, V S Serov, Y G Sharabian, J Shaw, S Simionatto, A V Skabelin, L C Smith, D I Sober, I I Strakovsky, A Stavinsky, P Stoler, R Suleiman, M Taiuti, S Taylor, U Thoma, R Thompson, C Tur, M Ungaro, M F Vineyard, A V Vlassov, K Wang, L B Weinstein, H Weller, D P Weygand, C S Whisnant, E Wolin, M H Wood, A Yegneswaran, J Yun,

Affiliations

  1. Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Laboratory, Newport News, Virginia 23606, USA and Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia 23529, USA.

PMID: 14754107 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.252001

Abstract

In an exclusive measurement of the reaction gammad-->K(+)K(-)pn, a narrow peak that can be attributed to an exotic baryon with strangeness S=+1 is seen in the K(+)n invariant mass spectrum. The peak is at 1.542+/-0.005 GeV/c(2) with a measured width of 0.021 GeV/c(2) FWHM, which is largely determined by experimental mass resolution. The statistical significance of the peak is (5.2+/-0.6)sigma. The mass and width of the observed peak are consistent with recent reports of a narrow S=+1 baryon by other experimental groups.

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