1. Charm–anticharm baryon production asymmetries in photon–nucleon interactions
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J.M Link, P.M Yager, J.C Anjos, I Bediaga, C Göbel, A.A Machado, J Magnin, A Massafferri, J.M de Miranda, I.M Pepe, E Polycarpo, A.C dos Reis, S Carrillo, E Casimiro, E Cuautle, A Sánchez-Hernández, F Vázquez, C Uribe, L Agostino, L Cinquini, J.P Cumalat, B O'Reilly, I Segoni, M Wahl, J.N Butler, H.W.K Cheung, G Chiodini, I Gaines, P.H Garbincius, L.A Garren, E Gottschalk, P.H Kasper, A.E Kreymer, R Kutschke, M Wang, L Benussi, M Bertani, S Bianco, F.L Fabbri, A Zallo, M Reyes, C Cawlfield, D.Y Kim, A Rahimi, J Wiss, R Gardner, A Kryemadhi, Y.S Chung, J.S Kang, B.R Ko, J.W Kwak, K.B Lee, K Cho, H Park, G Alimonti, S Barberis, M Boschini, A Cerutti, P D'Angelo, M DiCorato, P Dini, L Edera, S Erba, M Giammarchi, P Inzani, F Leveraro, S Malvezzi, D Menasce, M Mezzadri, L Moroni, D Pedrini, C Pontoglio, F Prelz, M Rovere, S Sala, T.F Davenport, V Arena, G Boca, G Bonomi, G Gianini, G Liguori, M.M Merlo, D Pantea, D Lopes Pegna, S.P Ratti, C Riccardi, P Vitulo, H Hernandez, A.M Lopez, E Luiggi, H Mendez, A Paris, J.E Ramirez, Y Zhang, J.R Wilson, T Handler, R Mitchell, D Engh, M Hosack, W.E Johns, M Nehring, P.D Sheldon, K Stenson, E.W Vaandering, M Webster, and M Sheaff
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Physics ,Particle physics ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Photon ,media_common.quotation_subject ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Asymmetry ,High Energy Physics - Experiment ,Baryon ,High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) ,Excited state ,Production (computer science) ,Charm (quantum number) ,Fermilab ,Nucleon ,media_common - Abstract
We report measurements of the charm-anticharm production asymmetries for $\Lambda_c^+$, $\Sigma_c^{++}$, $\Sigma_c^0$, $\Sigma_c^{++*}$, $\Sigma_c^{0*}$, and $\Lambda_c^+(2625)$ baryons from the Fermilab photoproduction experiment FOCUS (E831). These asymmetries are integrated over the region where the spectrometer has good acceptance. In addition, we have obtained results for the photoproduction asymmetries of the $\Lambda_c$ baryons as functions of $p_L$, $p_T^2$, and $x_F$. The integrated asymmetry for $\Lambda_c^+$ production, $(\sigma_{\Lambda_c^+} - \sigma_{\Lambda_c^-}) / (\sigma_{\Lambda_c^+} + \sigma_{\Lambda_c^-})$, is $0.111 \pm 0.018 \pm 0.012$, significantly different from zero. The asymmetries of the excited states are consistent with the $\Lambda_c$ asymmetry., Comment: 12 pages, 9 figures, 1 table
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- 2004
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