1. Evidence for Λc(2593)+ production
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D. O. Litvintsev, R. Mundt, C. Frankl, B. Spaan, H. Thurn, Ruslan Chistov, P. Pakhlov, V. Eiges, R. Waldi, R. P. Hofmann, P. R.B. Saull, D. B. MacFarlane, Sebastian Nowak, D. Wegener, J. Spengler, T. Siegmund, A. Snizhko, W. Schmidt-Parzefall, T. Oest, M. Schramm, H. Kapitza, H. Kuipers, A. Nau, I. Korolko, Michael Schneider, Holger Schulz, Peter Krieger, Sergey Semenov, M. Bracko, G. Kernel, Hermann Kolanoski, H. Wegener, S. Weseler, T. Živko, H. Schröder, T. S. Yoon, R. Schwierz, T. Podobnik, G. Medin, O. Igonkina, Klaus R. Schubert, K. T. Knöpfle, Ivan Belyaev, L. Gershtein, Sergey Barsuk, J.D. Prentice, A. Lindner, M. Schieber, C. Hast, Thomas Hamacher, S. Werner, J. Graf, K. Tzamariudaki, D. Töpfer, A. Lange, M. Walter, R. G. Van de Water, O. Mai, A. Rohde, R. Eckmann, Yu. Zaitsev, K. Reim, H. Albrecht, R. Mankel, R. Wurth, T. Kirchhoff, E. Križnič, P. Križan, A. Golutvin, Yu. Gershtein, J. Stiewe, D. Reßing, I. Tichomirov, M. Schmidtler, A. Hüpper, Vladislav Balagura, Mikhail Danilov, A. Kosche, Werner Hofmann, K. Ehret, G. Kostina, and R. Reiner
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Baryon ,Physics ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Argus ,Electron–positron annihilation ,Excited state ,DESY ,Atomic physics ,computer ,computer.programming_language - Abstract
Using the ARGUS detector at the e+e− storage ring DORIS II at DESY, we have found evidence for the production of the excited charmed baryon state Λc(2593)+ in the channel Λc+π+π−. Its mass was determined to be (2594.6±0.9±0.4) MeV/c2, and the natural width measured to be Γ = (2.9−2.1−1.4+2.9+1.8) MeV. The production cross section times the branching ratios of σ(e+e− → Λc(2593)+X) × Br(Λc(2593)+ → Λc+π+π−) × Br(Λc+ → pK−π+) was measured to be (0.25−0.13+0.24 ±0.13) pb. The fractions of Λc(2593)+ decays proceeding through the Σc0π+ and Σc++π− channels were determined to be 0.29±0.10±0.11 and 0.37±0.12±0.13, respectively.
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- 1997
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