1. Evidence for W-exchange in charmed baryon decays
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S. Werner, D. O. Litvintsev, H. Schröder, Vladislav Balagura, B. Spaan, M. Walter, H. Wegener, Klaus R. Schubert, P. Krieger, T. Podobnik, I. Tichomirov, V. Lubimov, R. Waldi, M. Schieber, R. Mundt, I. Korolko, G. Kostina, H. Albrecht, R. Mankel, R. Wurth, P. R. B. Saull, Sebastian Nowak, D. Wegener, P. Križan, A. Golutvin, P. Eckstein, H. Thurn, Axel Lindner, Thomas Hamacher, S. Weseler, R. Schwierz, R. Reiner, Sally Seidel, H. Kapitza, A. Hüpper, T. Oest, Ivan Belyaev, Holger Schulz, J. D. Prentice, E. Križnič, A. Nau, Sergey Semenov, J. Stiewe, W. Schmidt-Parzefall, A. Snizhko, C. Frankl, R. P. Hofmann, S. Chechelnitsky, Hermann Kolanoski, K. Ehret, M. Schmidtler, H. Kuipers, C. E. K. Charlesworth, D. Töpfer, K. T. Knöpfle, T. Živko, T. Kirchhoff, D. B. Macfarlane, Mikhail Danilov, U. Becker, A. Droutskoy, D. Reßing, P. Pakhlov, T. Siegmund, J. Spengler, A. Kosche, A. Lange, G. Kernel, P. Eckmanm, K. Reim, O. Mai, Werner Hofmann, C. Hast, Michael Schneider, Yu. Zaitsev, Yu. Gershtein, T. S. Yoon, R. G. Van de Water, and K. Tzamariudaki
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Nuclear physics ,Physics ,Baryon ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Argus ,Particle physics ,Branching fraction ,Electron–positron annihilation ,Mass spectrum ,DESY ,computer ,computer.programming_language - Abstract
Using the detector ARGUS at the e+e− storage ring DORIS II at DESY, we have observed the decays Λc+ → Ξ−K+π+ and Λc+ → Ξ∗0K+ and obtained evidence for the decay Ξc0 → ΛKs0. All three of these decays are of interest as they provide information about W-exchange processes. The products of cross sections and branching ratios for Λc+ → Ξ−K+π+ and Λc+ → Ξ∗0K+ are (1.7±0.3±0.3) pb and (0.6±0.2±0.1) pb, respectively, which implies that (35±17) % of the Ξ−K+π+ final state is generated through a two-body decay via intermediate W-exchange. The product of production cross section and branching ratio for Ξc0 → Λ Ks0 is (2.1 ± 1.0 ± 0.6) pb.
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- 1995
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