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Larin I, Zhang Y, Gasparian A, Gan L, Miskimen R, Khandaker M, Dale D, Danagoulian S, Pasyuk E, Gao H, Ahmidouch A, Ambrozewicz P, Baturin V, Burkert V, Clinton E, Deur A, Dolgolenko A, Dutta D, Fedotov G, Feng J, Gevorkyan S, Glamazdin A, Guo L, Isupov E, Ito MM, Klein F, Kowalski S, Kubarovsky A, Kubarovsky V, Lawrence D, Lu H, Ma L, Matveev V, Morrison B, Micherdzinska A, Nakagawa I, Park K, Pedroni R, Phelps W, Protopopescu D, Rimal D, Romanov D, Salgado C, Shahinyan A, Sober D, Stepanyan S, Tarasov VV, Taylor S, Vasiliev A, Wood M, Ye L, Zihlmann B. Precision measurement of the neutral pion lifetime. Science 2020; 368:506-509. [PMID: 32355026 DOI: 10.1126/science.aay6641] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2019] [Accepted: 03/30/2020] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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The explicit breaking of the axial symmetry by quantum fluctuations gives rise to the so-called axial anomaly. This phenomenon is solely responsible for the decay of the neutral pion π0 into two photons (γγ), leading to its unusually short lifetime. We precisely measured the decay width Γ of the [Formula: see text] process. The differential cross sections for π0 photoproduction at forward angles were measured on two targets, carbon-12 and silicon-28, yielding [Formula: see text], where stat. denotes the statistical uncertainty and syst. the systematic uncertainty. We combined the results of this and an earlier experiment to generate a weighted average of [Formula: see text] Our final result has a total uncertainty of 1.50% and confirms the prediction based on the chiral anomaly in quantum chromodynamics.
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- I Larin
- Alikhanov Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, National Research Center (NRC) "Kurchatov Institute," Moscow, 117218, Russia.,Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
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- Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA.,Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory, Durham, NC 27708, USA
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- Department of Physics, North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, NC 27411, USA.
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- Department of Physics and Physical Oceanography, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, NC 28403, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
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- Department of Physics, Norfolk State University, Norfolk, VA 23504, USA
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- Department of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID 83209, USA
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- Department of Physics, North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, NC 27411, USA
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- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, VA 23606, USA
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- Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA.,Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory, Durham, NC 27708, USA
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- Department of Physics, North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, NC 27411, USA
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- Department of Physics, North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, NC 27411, USA
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- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, VA 23606, USA
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- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, VA 23606, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
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- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, VA 23606, USA
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- Alikhanov Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, National Research Center (NRC) "Kurchatov Institute," Moscow, 117218, Russia
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762, USA
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- Department of Physics, Moscow State University, Moscow 119991, Russia.,B. P. Konstantinov Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, NRC "Kurchatov Institute," Gatchina, St. Petersburg, 188300, Russia
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- Department of Physics and Physical Oceanography, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, NC 28403, USA
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- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, 141980, Russia
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- Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology, Kharkov, 310108, Ukraine
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- Department of Physics, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199, USA
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- Department of Physics, Moscow State University, Moscow 119991, Russia
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- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, VA 23606, USA
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- Department of Physics, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC 20064, USA
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- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, VA 23606, USA
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- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, VA 23606, USA
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- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, VA 23606, USA
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- Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
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- School of Nuclear Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, China
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- Alikhanov Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, National Research Center (NRC) "Kurchatov Institute," Moscow, 117218, Russia
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- Department of Physics, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85281, USA
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- Department of Physics, George Washington University, Washington, DC 20064, USA
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- RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, VA 23606, USA
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- Department of Physics, North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, NC 27411, USA
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- Department of Physics, Computer Science and Engineering, Christopher Newport University, Newport News, VA 23606, USA
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK
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- Department of Physics, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199, USA
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- Department of Physics, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia
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- Department of Physics, Norfolk State University, Norfolk, VA 23504, USA
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- Yerevan Physics Institute, Yerevan 0036, Armenia
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- Department of Physics, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC 20064, USA
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- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, VA 23606, USA
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- Alikhanov Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, National Research Center (NRC) "Kurchatov Institute," Moscow, 117218, Russia
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- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, VA 23606, USA
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- Institute for High Energy Physics, NRC "Kurchatov Institute," Protvino, 142281, Russia
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- Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762, USA
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- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, VA 23606, USA
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Larin I, McNulty D, Clinton E, Ambrozewicz P, Lawrence D, Nakagawa I, Prok Y, Teymurazyan A, Ahmidouch A, Asratyan A, Baker K, Benton L, Bernstein AM, Burkert V, Cole P, Collins P, Dale D, Danagoulian S, Davidenko G, Demirchyan R, Deur A, Dolgolenko A, Dzyubenko G, Ent R, Evdokimov A, Feng J, Gabrielyan M, Gan L, Gasparian A, Gevorkyan S, Glamazdin A, Goryachev V, Gyurjyan V, Hardy K, He J, Ito M, Jiang L, Kashy D, Khandaker M, Kingsberry P, Kolarkar A, Konchatnyi M, Korchin A, Korsch W, Kowalski S, Kubantsev M, Kubarovsky V, Li X, Martel P, Matveev V, Mecking B, Milbrath B, Minehart R, Miskimen R, Mochalov V, Mtingwa S, Overby S, Pasyuk E, Payen M, Pedroni R, Ritchie B, Rodrigues TE, Salgado C, Shahinyan A, Sitnikov A, Sober D, Stepanyan S, Stephens W, Underwood J, Vasiliev A, Vishnyakov V, Wood M, Zhou S. New Measurement of the π0 radiative decay width. Phys Rev Lett 2011; 106:162303. [PMID: 21599360 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.106.162303] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2010] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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High precision measurements of the differential cross sections for π0 photoproduction at forward angles for two nuclei, 12C and 208Pb, have been performed for incident photon energies of 4.9-5.5 GeV to extract the π0→γγ decay width. The experiment was done at Jefferson Lab using the Hall B photon tagger and a high-resolution multichannel calorimeter. The π0→γγ decay width was extracted by fitting the measured cross sections using recently updated theoretical models for the process. The resulting value for the decay width is Γ(π0→γγ)=7.82±0.14(stat)±0.17(syst) eV. With the 2.8% total uncertainty, this result is a factor of 2.5 more precise than the current Particle Data Group average of this fundamental quantity, and it is consistent with current theoretical predictions.
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- I Larin
- Alikhanov Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia
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Battaglieri M, De Vita R, Szczepaniak AP, Adhikari KP, Aghasyan M, Amaryan MJ, Ambrozewicz P, Anghinolfi M, Asryan G, Avakian H, Bagdasaryan H, Baillie N, Ball JP, Baltzell NA, Batourine V, Bedlinskiy I, Bellis M, Benmouna N, Berman BL, Bibrzycki L, Biselli AS, Bookwalter C, Bouchigny S, Boiarinov S, Bradford R, Branford D, Briscoe WJ, Brooks WK, Bültmann S, Burkert VD, Calarco JR, Careccia SL, Carman DS, Casey L, Chen S, Cheng L, Clinton E, Cole PL, Collins P, Crabb D, Crannell H, Crede V, Cummings JP, Dale D, Daniel A, Dashyan N, De Masi R, De Sanctis E, Degtyarenko PV, Deur A, Dhamija S, Dharmawardane KV, Dickson R, Djalali C, Dodge GE, Donnelly J, Doughty D, Dugger M, Dzyubak OP, Egiyan H, Egiyan KS, El Fassi L, Elouadrhiri L, Eugenio P, Fedotov G, Fersch R, Forest TA, Fradi A, Gabrielyan MY, Gan L, Garçon M, Gasparian A, Gavalian G, Gevorgyan N, Gilfoyle GP, Giovanetti KL, Girod FX, Glamazdin O, Goett J, Goetz JT, Gohn W, Golovatch E, Gordon CIO, Gothe RW, Graham L, Griffioen KA, Guidal M, Guler N, Guo L, Gyurjyan V, Hadjidakis C, Hafidi K, Hakobyan H, Hakobyan RS, Hanretty C, Hardie J, Hassall N, Heddle D, Hersman FW, Hicks K, Hleiqawi I, Holtrop M, Hyde CE, Ilieva Y, Ireland DG, Ishkhanov BS, Isupov EL, Ito MM, Jenkins D, Jo HS, Johnstone JR, Joo K, Juengst HG, Kageya T, Kalantarians N, Keller D, Kellie JD, Khandaker M, Khetarpal P, Kim W, Klein A, Klein FJ, Klimenko AV, Konczykowski P, Kossov M, Krahn Z, Kramer LH, Kubarovsky V, Kuhn J, Kuhn SE, Kuleshov SV, Kuznetsov V, Lachniet J, Laget JM, Langheinrich J, Lawrence D, Lee T, Lesniak L, Li J, Livingston K, Lowry M, Lu HY, Maccormick M, Malace S, Markov N, Mattione P, McCracken ME, McKinnon B, Mecking BA, Melone JJ, Mestayer MD, Meyer CA, Mibe T, Mikhailov K, Mineeva T, Minehart R, Mirazita M, Miskimen R, Mochalov V, Mokeev V, Moreno B, Moriya K, Morrow SA, Moteabbed M, Munevar E, Mutchler GS, Nadel-Turonski P, Nakagawa I, Nasseripour R, Niccolai S, Niculescu G, Niculescu I, Niczyporuk BB, Niroula MR, Niyazov RA, Nozar M, Osipenko M, Ostrovidov AI, Park K, Park S, Pasyuk E, Paris M, Paterson C, Pereira SA, Pierce J, Pivnyuk N, Pocanic D, Pogorelko O, Pozdniakov S, Price JW, Prok Y, Protopopescu D, Raue BA, Riccardi G, Ricco G, Ripani M, Ritchie BG, Rosner G, Rossi P, Sabatié F, Saini MS, Salamanca J, Salgado C, Sandorfi A, Santoro JP, Sapunenko V, Schott D, Schumacher RA, Serov VS, Sharabian YG, Sharov D, Shvedunov NV, Smith ES, Smith LC, Sober DI, Sokhan D, Starostin A, Stavinsky A, Stepanyan S, Stepanyan SS, Stokes BE, Stoler P, Stopani KA, Strakovsky II, Strauch S, Taiuti M, Tedeschi DJ, Teymurazyan A, Tkabladze A, Tkachenko S, Todor L, Tur C, Ungaro M, Vineyard MF, Vlassov AV, Watts DP, Wei X, Weinstein LB, Weygand DP, Williams M, Wolin E, Wood MH, Yegneswaran A, Yurov M, Zana L, Zhang J, Zhao B, Zhao ZW. Measurement of direct f0(980) photoproduction on the proton. Phys Rev Lett 2009; 102:102001. [PMID: 19392104 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.102.102001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2008] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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We report on the results of the first measurement of exclusive f_{0}(980) meson photoproduction on protons for E_{gamma}=3.0-3.8 GeV and -t=0.4-1.0 GeV2. Data were collected with the CLAS detector at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility. The resonance was detected via its decay in the pi;{+}pi;{-} channel by performing a partial wave analysis of the reaction gammap-->ppi;{+}pi;{-}. Clear evidence of the f_{0}(980) meson was found in the interference between P and S waves at M_{pi;{+}pi;{-}} approximately 1 GeV. The S-wave differential cross section integrated in the mass range of the f_{0}(980) was found to be a factor of about 50 smaller than the cross section for the rho meson. This is the first time the f_{0}(980) meson has been measured in a photoproduction experiment.
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- M Battaglieri
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Genova, 16146 Genova, Italy
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Kubarovsky V, Battaglieri M, De Vita R, Goett J, Guo L, Mutchler GS, Stoler P, Weygand DP, Ambrozewicz P, Anghinolfi M, Asryan G, Avakian H, Bagdasaryan H, Baillie N, Ball JP, Baltzell NA, Batourine V, Bedlinskiy I, Bellis M, Benmouna N, Berman BL, Biselli AS, Bouchigny S, Boiarinov S, Bradford R, Branford D, Briscoe WJ, Brooks WK, Bültmann S, Burkert VD, Butuceanu C, Calarco JR, Careccia SL, Carman DS, Chen S, Clinton E, Cole PL, Collins P, Coltharp P, Crabb D, Crannell H, Crede V, Cummings JP, De Masi R, Dale D, De Sanctis E, Degtyarenko PV, Deur A, Dharmawardane KV, Djalali C, Dodge GE, Donnelly J, Doughty D, Dugger M, Dzyubak OP, Egiyan H, Egiyan KS, Elouadrhiri L, Eugenio P, Fedotov G, Funsten H, Gabrielyan MY, Gan L, Garçon M, Gasparian A, Gavalian G, Gilfoyle GP, Giovanetti KL, Girod FX, Glamazdin O, Goetz JT, Golovach E, Gonenc A, Gordon CIO, Gothe RW, Griffioen KA, Guidal M, Guler N, Gyurjyan V, Hadjidakis C, Hafidi K, Hakobyan RS, Hardie J, Hersman FW, Hicks K, Hleiqawi I, Holtrop M, Hyde-Wright CE, Ilieva Y, Ireland DG, Ishkhanov BS, Isupov EL, Ito MM, Jenkins D, Jo HS, Joo K, Juengst HG, Kellie JD, Khandaker M, Kim W, Klein A, Klein FJ, Klimenko AV, Kossov M, Kramer LH, Kuhn J, Kuhn SE, Kuleshov SV, Lachniet J, Laget JM, Langheinrich J, Lawrence D, Lee T, Li J, Livingston K, Lu H, MacCormick M, Markov N, McKinnon B, Mecking BA, Melone JJ, Mestayer MD, Meyer CA, Mibe T, Mikhailov K, Minehart R, Mirazita M, Miskimen R, Mochalov V, Mokeev V, Morand L, Morrow SA, Moteabbed M, Nadel-Turonski P, Nakagawa I, Nasseripour R, Niccolai S, Niculescu G, Niculescu I, Niczyporuk BB, Niroula MR, Niyazov RA, Nozar M, Osipenko M, Ostrovidov AI, Park K, Pasyuk E, Paterson C, Pierce J, Pivnyuk N, Pocanic D, Pogorelko O, Pozdniakov S, Price JW, Prok Y, Protopopescu D, Raue BA, Riccardi G, Ricco G, Ripani M, Ritchie BG, Ronchetti F, Rosner G, Rossi P, Sabatié F, Salgado C, Santoro JP, Sapunenko V, Schumacher RA, Serov VS, Sharabian YG, Shvedunov NV, Smith ES, Smith LC, Sober DI, Stavinsky A, Stepanyan SS, Stepanyan S, Stokes BE, Strakovsky II, Strauch S, Taiuti M, Tedeschi DJ, Teymurazyan A, Thoma U, Tkabladze A, Tkachenko S, Todor L, Tur C, Ungaro M, Vineyard MF, Vlassov AV, Weinstein LB, Williams M, Wolin E, Wood MH, Yegneswaran A, Zana L, Zhang J, Zhao B. Search for Theta++ pentaquarks in the exclusive reaction gammap-->K+K-p. Phys Rev Lett 2006; 97:102001. [PMID: 17025804 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.97.102001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2006] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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The reaction gammap --> pK+K- was studied at Jefferson Lab with photon energies from 1.8 to 3.8 GeV using a tagged photon beam. The goal was to search for a Theta++ pentaquark, a narrow, doubly charged baryon state having strangeness S=+1 and isospin I=1, in the pK+ invariant mass spectrum. No statistically significant evidence of a Theta++ was found. Upper limits on the total and differential cross section for the reaction gammap --> K-Theta++ were obtained in the mass range from 1.5 to 2.0 GeV/c2, with an upper limit for a narrow resonance with a mass M(Theta++) = 1.54 GeV/c2 of about 0.15 nb, 95% C.L.. This result places a stringent upper limit on the Theta++ width Gamma(Theta++) <0.1 MeV/c2.
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- V Kubarovsky
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York 12180-3590, USA
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Battaglieri M, De Vita R, Kubarovsky V, Guo L, Mutchler GS, Stoler P, Weygand DP, Ambrozewicz P, Anghinolfi M, Asryan G, Avakian H, Bagdasaryan H, Baillie N, Ball JP, Baltzell NA, Batourine V, Bedlinskiy I, Bellis M, Benmouna N, Berman BL, Biselli AS, Bouchigny S, Boiarinov S, Bradford R, Branford D, Briscoe WJ, Brooks WK, Bültmann S, Burkert VD, Butuceanu C, Calarco JR, Careccia SL, Carman DS, Chen S, Clinton E, Cole PL, Coltharp P, Crabb D, Crannell H, Cummings JP, Dale D, De Sanctis E, Degtyarenko PV, Deur A, Dharmawardane KV, Djalali C, Dodge GE, Donnelly J, Doughty D, Dugger M, Dzyubak OP, Egiyan H, Egiyan KS, Elouadrhiri L, Eugenio P, Fedotov G, Funsten H, Gabrielyan MY, Gan L, Garçon M, Gasparian A, Gavalian G, Gilfoyle GP, Giovanetti KL, Girod FX, Glamazdin O, Goett J, Goetz JT, Golovach E, Gonenc A, Gordon CIO, Gothe RW, Griffioen KA, Guidal M, Guler N, Gyurjyan V, Hadjidakis C, Hakobyan RS, Hardie J, Hersman FW, Hicks K, Hleiqawi I, Holtrop M, Hyde-Wright CE, Ilieva Y, Ireland DG, Ishkhanov BS, Ito MM, Jenkins D, Jo HS, Joo K, Juengst HG, Kellie JD, Khandaker M, Kim W, Klein A, Klein FJ, Klimenko AV, Kossov M, Kramer LH, Kuhn J, Kuhn SE, Kuleshov SV, Lachniet J, Laget JM, Langheinrich J, Lawrence D, Lee T, Li J, Livingston K, McKinnon B, Mecking BA, Melone JJ, Mestayer MD, Meyer CA, Mibe T, Mikhailov K, Minehart R, Mirazita M, Miskimen R, Mochalov V, Mokeev V, Morand L, Morrow SA, Nadel-Turonski P, Nakagawa I, Nasseripour R, Niccolai S, Niculescu G, Niculescu I, Niczyporuk BB, Niyazov RA, Nozar M, Osipenko M, Ostrovidov AI, Park K, Pasyuk E, Paterson C, Pierce J, Pivnyuk N, Pocanic D, Pogorelko O, Pozdniakov S, Price JW, Prok Y, Protopopescu D, Raue BA, Riccardi G, Ricco G, Ripani M, Ritchie BG, Ronchetti F, Rosner G, Rossi P, Sabatié F, Salgado C, Santoro JP, Sapunenko V, Schumacher RA, Serov VS, Sharabian YG, Smith ES, Smith LC, Sober DI, Stavinsky A, Stepanyan SS, Stepanyan S, Stokes BE, Strakovsky II, Strauch S, Taiuti M, Tedeschi DJ, Teymurazyan A, Thoma U, Tkabladze A, Tkachenko S, Todor L, Tur C, Ungaro M, Vineyard MF, Vlassov AV, Weinstein LB, Williams M, Wolin E, Wood MH, Yegneswaran A, Zana L, Zhang J, Zhao B. Search for Theta+ (1540) Pentaquark in High-Statistics Measurement of gammap-->K0K+n at CLAS. Phys Rev Lett 2006; 96:042001. [PMID: 16486808 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.96.042001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2005] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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The exclusive reaction gammap-->K0K+n was studied in the photon energy range between 1.6 and 3.8 GeV searching for evidence of the exotic baryon Theta+ (1540)-->nK+. The decay to nK+requires the assignment of strangeness S=+1 to any observed resonance. Data were collected with the CLAS detector at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 70 pb-1. No evidence for the Theta+ pentaquark was found. Upper limits were set on the production cross section as function of center-of-mass angle and nK+ mass. The 95% C.L. upper limit on the total cross section for a narrow resonance at 1540 MeV was found to be 0.8 nb.
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- M Battaglieri
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Genova, and Dipartimento di Fisica, Universitá di Genova, 16146 Genova, Italy
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